How to Use corrode in a Sentence

corrode

verb

• After a few weeks in the ocean, the boat began to corrode.
• Over time, the pipes become corroded and need to be replaced.
• Years of lies and secrets had corroded their relationship.
• Rainwater may corrode the steel containers.
• Gomez said the copper would corrode if the pans were idle.
  — Sylvie Corbet, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
• In the weeks since, this unified front has fractured and the very brand of the group has begun to corrode.
  — Marissa J. Lang, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2021
• The second is the filler neck, which can corrode on older cars and cause leaks.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2021
• That caused the copper to corrode, turning it a dark black.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2022
• Seats / Most seat bolts are corroded or have a nut under the bus that turns with the bolt.
  — Will Sutherland, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2019
• Acidic water can corrode lead pipes and carry lead that leaches from them to the tap.
  — Maura C. Allaire, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2019
• The durable metal pump is coated for longevity and won’t corrode or rust.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 26 May 2021
• The gasket can release sulfur that can corrode the LED circuit that controls the lights.
  — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 12 Feb. 2020
• The problem is that the batteries often don’t get changed and start to corrode, then damage the circuit board.
  — Ben Kuchera, Ars Technica, 7 July 2019
• Worse yet, water also helps corrode the steel or aluminum rim over time.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2020
• The oceans where rocket boosters are usually sent to land can corrode the metal that the boosters are made of.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 May 2022
• The Madre is a former US Navy tank landing ship built more than 70 years ago and slowly corroding away.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• When rain or melted snow mix with the salt used to melt ice on the roads, that mixture seeps into manholes and can corrode the wiring buried below.
  — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2023
• Beware that acidic foods may corrode the nonstick coating and cause peeling.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
• Rain brings down an oily film that corrodes car engines, turns white clothes dark and stains notebooks that children carry to school.
  — Sheyla Urdaneta Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 22 July 2023
• The thieves could see that the trip alarm on the Star of India’s display stand had batteries that were corroded and probably long dead.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• The upshot—why drink a chemical that can corrode your gut, mess up your thyroid, kill your kidneys, or kill you?
  — Judy Stone, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• Some of the propellant the Dragon spacecraft uses can mix with too much moisture in the air, creating acid that corrodes the valve.
  — Loren Grush, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2023
• The boat’s bearings also began to corrode halfway through the journey.
  — Fox News, 30 July 2022
• Both radiation and acid cause steel tanks to corrode and degrade.
  — Valerie Brown, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018
• Plus, the rustproof metal is unlikely to corrode over time.
  — Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• The weight of this secret distorts Leila’s life, as other damaging secrets corrode the whole clan.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• What’s so sad is that his corrosive elements corrode even the thing that’s most valuable.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
• On a sunny morning in May, one of the 91-year-old dam’s corroded spillway gates suddenly gave way.
  — Michelle Minkoff, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2019
• The cutbacks likely won’t damage the pipeline itself, although steel can corrode and leaks could form.
  — Paul Roderick Gregory, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• And in the long run, that could corrode the physical qualities that have helped San Francisco endure as a compelling place to be.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024