How to Use erosive in a Sentence

erosive

adjective

• From this porch, a short, treacherous path leads down to the ocean, past a retaining wall meant to slow the house’s erosive slide into the water.
  — Patrick House, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• When rains follow, the earth, ash and charred remnants become erosive torrents, scouring creeks.
  — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 5 May 2018
• Of course, these same erosive forces continue to shape Arches today.
  — Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2021
• Most were built on highly erosive sagebrush steppe in the Gunnison River Basin.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2019
• Streams lose resistance due to the erosive forces of flood waters, even during smaller, slower floods.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2022
• With otter populations rebounding, kelp forests are too, providing a nursery for young fish and a brake on the erosive power of the surf at the near shore.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 24 Mar. 2018
• But researchers compared the erosive effects of seltzer to soda, coffee, energy drinks and diet cola and found seltzer to be the least harmful to teeth.
  — Rahel Mathews, The Conversation, 7 May 2020
• Mars dust may not be quite so sharp since there are erosive forces there, but the dust storms can be massive—in 2018 the rover Opportunity went offline after one bad tempest there.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2021
• Flavored water is still way better to drink than soda, which is not only more erosive but also has unhealthy amounts of sugar and empty calories.
  — Ellie Krieger, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Bitcoin got a brief boost Friday after a report showed U.S. consumer prices accelerated, supporting the argument that the coin is a hedge against the erosive impact of inflation.
  — Vildana Hajric, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2021
• For the emergency spillway, the forensic team found absence of protection against erosion downstream may have been a factor, and surmised that heavily erosive rock and soil may have lead to headcutting, abrupt erosion which creates a ravine.
  — Risa Johnson, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
• The regenerative, rather than erosive, solutions that ensue, ensure our own survival–and benefit the bottom line.
  — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• According to the research team, the competing theory that tectonic activity carved out the missing rock was put forth in 2021 when a separate research group questioned whether ancient glaciers were erosive enough to cause the massive loss of rock.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• The early episodes, somewhat unevenly paced, are largely devoted to the curdling of Louis and Lestat’s romance, an ecstatic honeymoon followed by the drip-drip of erosive disappointment.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• By studying helium signatures in layers of rock, researchers pieced together its erosive history.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024