How to Use erode in a Sentence

erode

verb

• Crashing waves have eroded the cliffs along the beach.
• The shoreline has eroded badly.
• The fastest way to erode that trust is to lie to your employees.
  — Jean Serra, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• If built, the new route would move about 1.7 miles of the railroad tracks off the edge of the tall, eroding seaside bluffs.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024
• All that water was rushing down the backside of the brick and eroding away the mortar.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 31 May 2023
• There is anxiety that AI could further erode the number of jobs in the field.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 June 2024
• Once a rock wears away enough to expose a fossil, the specimen starts to erode with it.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Biggs said one of the first signs of a country's decline is when its boundaries start to erode.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• Ignoring the rules of the road puts us in peril and erodes the fabric of our society.
  — Jerald McNair, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
• Formed by the wind over millions of years, sand dunes grow and shape shift as grains of sand erode and accumulate.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2023
• New fire dangers put them at risk, and more frequent floods erode the big trees’ footing.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
• That said, at this point my competence is much eroded by time.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 May 2023
• This can cause trauma and erode your mental health, Brognano says.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 19 Dec. 2022
• These tiny bits eroded from larger rocks over millions of years.
  — Brian Darby, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
• With climate change, rising seas are eroding Hawaii’s coast near homes with cesspools.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• If your brush has a wooden handle, soaking it in vinegar will erode it.
  — Alicia Chilton, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2023
• By the late 1950s, the Stork Club began to erode into irrelevance.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• However, many bills fail because of concerns that the bills would erode students’ right to due process.
  — Charles Bell, The Conversation, 16 Aug. 2022
• The sandy formation had already been broken and eroded by weather, wind and rain over the years.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• What is more common on the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan are wintertime floods and waves that can erode the lakeshore.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
• In concert with the river eroding from one side, spring water weakened it from the other.
  — Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
• When the houses are battered by strong winds and large waves, the water erodes the sand supporting the homes, increasing the chance of collapse.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
• On teams where there is little distinction between good and bad work, morale can erode over time.
  — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• The storm eroded many of the dunes on the Isle of Palms, leaving crews scrambling to smooth out large drop-offs on beach access paths ahead of Labor Day weekend.
  — Rebecca Blackwell and Laura Bargfeld, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Rahm echoed the sentiment, taking aim at a LIV format whose changes erode the competitive essence of the game.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
• His actions against the Magic don’t erode Kerr’s confidence in Green going forward, the coach said.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Racine says that the lack of smaller shows in New York has slowly eroded the in-person dynamic of fandom.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2023
• There are signs that the company’s financial base has begun to erode.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• As more of Trump’s picks prepare to face senators’ scrutiny in the coming weeks, the contents of the Gaetz report could erode senators’ trust in the Trump transition team’s vetting process.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
• Monica has nicely linked how the campaign situation could help erode any chance for Biden to have a positive legacy.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025