Sentence examples for were corroded from inspiring English sources

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were corroded

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To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.

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The Rutgers survey found most respondents' lives were corroded by despair.

For them it was a time of jarring uncertainties, when solid 19th-century conceptions were corroded and eroded.

According to the order to vacate the building, posted by the Buildings Department, steel joists supporting the first floor were corroded, as were gas lines in the basement.

As of April 12, the agency had identified 880 rails throughout the subway system that were corroded and had still not been replaced.

It was a trying experience … The identification tags removed from the dead were corroded white, and had become embedded in the putrid flesh.

The copper beads found in the sites were corroded, not unusual for copper but the corrosion was fabricated, not naturally occurring, according to lab tests.

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I had failed to comprehend that my acts of charity were corroding any self-esteem he had left.

George Orwell, in a seminal essay in 1946, warned that pretentious diction and meaningless words and other bad habits were corroding politics.

"They're corroded, sticky, frozen".

"They're corroded," he explained.

The eyes can also be corroded.

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