How to Use corrosive in a Sentence

corrosive

adjective
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  • She argues that racism is dangerous and corrosive to society.
  • The resulting hopelessness has been corrosive to the health of those who live in them.
    — Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The question is whether big money is inherently corrosive: Warren (and Sanders) say yes, Buttigieg says no.
    — Time, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Much of the political rhetoric and social media chatter in our nation is undeniably corrosive.
    — Staff, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • His music, a mix of wistful folk and corrosive rock, has inspired other fellow legends, including Led Zeppelin.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 20 Feb. 2020
  • But perhaps even more corrosive to our democratic system of governance, the president and his allies are making a comprehensive attack on the very idea of fact and truth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The Abandons will explore that fine line between survival and law, the consequences of violence, and the corrosive power of secrets, as this family fights to keep their land.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The chemicals that spilled are corrosive and can burn the skin and eyes.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • The most corrosive of these have to do with getting older.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Each fuels the other, but the latter may prove to be a more corrosive force.
    — Greg Weiner, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
  • That’s corrosive not only for the Gray Lady, but the public record at large.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Meddling with the home and church is destructive and corrosive.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
  • But many among them struggle to dismiss the corrosive effect of Trump’s rhetoric.
    — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2020
  • As bizarre as Dre and Campbell’s actions are, fame’s corrosive force goes both ways.
    — Tomi Obaro, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Driving all of these things is the corrosive effect of fast fashion.
    — Kristin Larson, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2020
  • As Bell and as his peers knew well, reformers can be corrosive, too.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 July 2021
  • But if vaporized in a fire, the chemical is highly corrosive to the eyes, skin and throat.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • The first and best act of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes carves into an amoral world of preening wealth and corrosive power.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 May 2020
  • Though Stockholm’s harbor is cold, the gusts off the Baltic are briny and sweet, lacking the salt and corrosive violence of Atlantic winds.
    — Nina Sovich, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This will help keep the hardware safe from the corrosive chemical paint stripper.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2022
  • Using a biodegradable, non-corrosive pipe cleaner once a month can help keep the bathroom sink drain clean.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The desire for vengeance, The Handmaid’s Tale has long suggested, is as corrosive as the desire for power.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The reason so many reels struggle in the surf is due to the corrosive and destructive power of saltwater.
    — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2023
  • What’s so sad is that his corrosive elements corrode even the thing that’s most valuable.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But that both sides are engaged in a shady enterprise is a corrosive belief.
    — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • One sample had been thoroughly cleaned, but the others had not, and thus still had a corrosive layer.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 May 2020
  • On the left, the prospect of a second Trump term spurred a new class of megadonors, and helped allay lingering qualms about the corrosive effect of secret money among some Democrats.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2022
  • But no one else has entertained the corrosive tactics Mr. Trump has sought to employ.
    — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Sure, those clouds are made of a corrosive sulphuric acid, and the high-altitude winds whip around the planet at tornado-like speeds.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Venus, the closest planet to Earth, has an atmosphere similar to ours, but much more hot and full of corrosive sulfuric acid.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024

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