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
• The team relies on him to be a strong two-way presence, but his game has eroded on both ends of the ice.
  — Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Topsoil can erode due to strong winds, hard rains and flowing water.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
• 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
• When reefs die, storms systems cut further inland and erode away coastal dwellings.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 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
• The reality is, right now, with Ukraine’s brain drain, increasing poverty levels, and eroded democracy, our resilience is fragile.
  — Iuliia Mendel, TIME, 29 Jan. 2025
• And while Nvidia's competitive moat has proved extraordinarily strong until now, there are many reasons to believe it will be eroded over time, even by AI tools developed using Nvidia chips.
  — Felix Salmon, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025