How to Use abrade in a Sentence

abrade

verb
Definition of abradenext
Synonyms for abradenext
  • Plus, the straps and hooks can abrade the paint at the edges of trunk lids and rear hatches.
    — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
  • Try to avoid footwear that will further abrade the area.
    — Talia Abbas, SELF, 24 Dec. 2018
  • The important thing is to abrade off shiny spots, rust, deep scratches, and the like.
    — Dan Roe, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Olefin is stain- and fade-resistant but can abrade with use.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Using a drill and a wire metal brush attachment, abrade the wood by running the brush along the surface.
    — Hannah Bruneman, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Use firm but gentle pressure, being careful not to abrade or snag the yarn.
    — Jolie Kerr, Esquire, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Like dirt, those teeth will abrade fabrics during a wash cycle.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 17 July 2021
  • The surfaces are raw, abraded, sometimes buckled and creased.
    — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Another great crossover from the auto-body industry is the scouring pastes that clean and abrade a surface at the same time.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2019
  • Another great crossover from the auto-body industry is rubbing compound that cleans and abrades the surface at the same time.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The findings from the cave also included a number of pumice stones that the Neanderthals likely used as an abrading tool to sharpen other tools.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The authors proposed that Ganlea (as well as the other amphipithecids) often fed on hard seeds and nuts that abraded the canines of these primates.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 1 July 2009
  • This parodic picaresque finds Sturges at the zenith of his formidable powers to abrade and delight.
    — Washington Post, 31 July 2021
  • That helpless, screaming, wetting, nipple-abrading bundle of joy wouldn’t really change the woman who birthed it.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 31 May 2018
  • Anyway, to get back to the subject, the definitions for chafe are broad and grumpy: to irritate and vex, to abrade, to rub so as to wear away, to make sore, to feel irritation, discontent or impatience.
    — Bernadette Kinlaw, Arkansas Online, 31 May 2021
  • However, really wallop it, especially with a hard or sharp object, and the plastic will abrade, cut or tear.
    — John Decker, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2017
  • Wine Away was easy to remove from fabrics without excessive blotting or rinsing that can abrade or damage fabrics.
    — Carolyn Forté, Good Housekeeping, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Still, that box must contain gadgetry that would be the envy of 007 - fadeaways abrading opposing hopes like a sander, twisting layups augering through the defense, dunks slamming like hammers.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 7 May 2018
  • The atrium is gigantic and awe-inspiring, a bleached riff on Utah’s sandstone landscape, full of arches, bridges and rounded forms seemingly abraded by water, wind or time.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • In stonewashing, the stones organically abrade the fabric to further loosen the weave and increase overall flexibility and softness.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 9 July 2017
  • Nearly two dozen of the photographs in the exhibition are vintage prints; another 58 are newly printed from negatives abraded and speckled by time.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Ocean’s singing was magnificent: pure one minute, abraded the next, each murmur and yowl vividly captured by Coachella’s incredibly powerful sound system.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The ash was particularly angular (see below), meaning its ability to abrade aircraft was higher than typical ash.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2011
  • And under high braking pressure, the pads dig into the rotor surface like a microscopic hook-and-loop fastener—abrading the rotor and generating some dust, but delivering massive stopping power, too.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2019

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