erode

In a sentence

Six example sentences with erode, each labelled with its topic.

• Decades of salt air had eroded the lens coating, leaving a faint haze across every frame shot into sunlight.

  Photography

• Small annual fees erode a pension quietly, taking a fifth of the final balance over a working lifetime.

  Finance

• Wind and rain eroded the inscription until only four letters survived, and the mason's name was lost entirely.

  History

• Storm tides erode the dunes a little each winter, and the beach car park has lost ten metres since 1990.

  Environment

• Broken promises erode public trust slowly, and by the third scandal even loyal voters had stopped reading the party's leaflets.

  Politics

• Inflation of three percent a year erodes the buying power of savings by a quarter within a decade, without anyone touching the account.

  Economics

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