How to Use corrosive in a Sentence

corrosive

adjective

• She argues that racism is dangerous and corrosive to society.
• Like stainless steel, glass straws won't absorb any flavors or smells from your drink and are non-corrosive.
  — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2018
• Perhaps both sides can agree that the gerrymandering process is corrosive for all.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• Many times, the film highlights the corrosive effect of money and nostalgia.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• The project aims to discover how ocean acidity levels change seasonally, and where there are hot spots or refuges from corrosive waters.
  — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2018
• Use this method infrequently because vinegar is corrosive.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2024
• The chemicals used in capture are corrosive, requiring equipment made of expensive special steels.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• The movie’s most effective antidote to piousness, though, is Callahan’s corrosive sense of humor.
  — Gus Van Sant, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• Well, an awful correctional facility is merely one of Castle Rock’s many corrosive ills.
  — refinery29.com, 13 July 2018
• So by the time Flint residents got to using it for drinking water in 2014, the byproducts of the aforementioned list had made the water corrosive.
  — Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2018
• Unlike the ocean - with its corrosive salt water - the Great Lakes have a reputation of entombing their wrecks in almost pristine condition.
  — CBS News, 10 July 2018
• Second, persistent worries about inflation, and its corrosive effect on bond investments, have helped push market interest rates higher.
  — Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 1 July 2018
• Sulfuric acid is a common chemical used in many processes and is corrosive, according to Fermilab’s statement.
  — Megan Jones, Aurora Beacon-News, 10 July 2018
• The chemicals that spilled are corrosive and can burn the skin and eyes.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022
• The most corrosive of these have to do with getting older.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Each fuels the other, but the latter may prove to be a more corrosive force.
  — Greg Weiner, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• That’s corrosive not only for the Gray Lady, but the public record at large.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• The problems stem from corrosive desert soil, Schwecke said.
  — Sammy Roth, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• The resulting hopelessness has been corrosive to the health of those who live in them.
  — Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2020
• For instance, tests to see whether a chemical is corrosive to the skin can now be done on skin that is grown in a Petri dish.
  — Jeff Tollefson, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2019
• Meddling with the home and church is destructive and corrosive.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
• But many among them struggle to dismiss the corrosive effect of Trump’s rhetoric.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2020
• As bizarre as Dre and Campbell’s actions are, fame’s corrosive force goes both ways.
  — Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• Driving all of these things is the corrosive effect of fast fashion.
  — Kristin Larson, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2020
• As Bell and as his peers knew well, reformers can be corrosive, too.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 July 2021
• But if vaporized in a fire, the chemical is highly corrosive to the eyes, skin and throat.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• The first and best act of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes carves into an amoral world of preening wealth and corrosive power.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 May 2020
• Though Stockholm’s harbor is cold, the gusts off the Baltic are briny and sweet, lacking the salt and corrosive violence of Atlantic winds.
  — Nina Sovich, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
• Ethanol is corrosive, and some critics believe that E15, with its 15% ethanol, can cause damage to cars.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• This will help keep the hardware safe from the corrosive chemical paint stripper.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2022

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024