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• The back and forth movement of the tide causes erosion of the coastline.From the entry back and forth
• The planate, measuring several kilometres across, was formed by wind erosion.From the entry planate
• The cultivation of the hillside led to soil erosion.From the entry cultivation
• While many companies object to the process of trademark erosion, there is little that can be done to prevent it.From the entry trademark erosion
• A groyne promotes the build-up of sediment on its updrift side, and reduces erosion on the downdrift side.From the entry downdrift
• Across spans of millions of years, mountain ranges tear themselves apart through suicidal erosion.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry disassembly
• The erosion of accountability doesn't seem to matter now, but it will matter when things start unraveling.2023 October 18, Charles Hugh Smith, Our Mutually Reinforcing Crises: Not All Polycrises Are Equal. From the entry accountability
• Soil erosion may sometimes produce defects with smooth edges that may imitate remodeled margins.2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology…. From the entry treponemal
• Unconformities are surfaces of erosion or nondeposition of sediments that separate younger rocks from older ones.2013, Sreepat Jain, Fundamentals of Physical Geology. From the entry nondeposition
• There might be some thinning of the corticalis, but there is no evidence of erosion or destruction.2012, T. Rand, P. Ritschl, S. Trattnig, Imaging of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors: A Case Study Approach. From the entry corticalis
• The appropriate waterbreak spacing shall be based upon the erosion hazard rating and road or trail gradient.2012, California Forest Practice Rules, page 63. From the entry waterbreak
• Geogenic emissions are primarily the result of oil or natural gas seeps and soil wind erosion.2005, William Kuykenda, Emissions Inventory Guidance for Implementation of Ozone and Particulate Matter National Ambient Air Quality…. From the entry geogenic
• Soil erosion is only one of many serious threats to farmland.2004, Dr Michael Mayerfeld Bell & Michael S. Carolan, An Invitation to Environmental Sociology (Second Edition), p14 (Pine Forge Press…. From the entry salinize
• Resedimented tufas also contribute where erosion has washed detritus from other hillside tufa deposits.2003, Martyn Pedley, Ian Hill, “The recognition of barrage and paludal tufa systems by GPR: case studies of the geometry and correlation…. From the entry tufa
• Meigs The interaction between tectonism and erosion produces rugged landscapes in actively deforming regions.1997 April 25, Nicholas Brozovic et al., “Climatic Limits on Landscape Development in the Northwestern Himalaya”, in Science, volume 276…. From the entry tectonism
• Undisturbed tree roots served to bind soil particles together and to prevent sheet erosion.1991, Sam L. J. Page & Helán E. Page, "Western Hegemony over African Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia and its Continuing Threat to Food…. From the entry pyroculture
• According to officials, hundreds of North Carolina oceanfront properties are threatened by erosion.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 511. From the entry oceanfront
• More generally, regressive sedimentary episodes often correlate with widespread stratigraphic gaps implying erosion or non-deposition.1978, A. Hallam, “Eustatic cycles in the Jurassic”, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, volume 23, Amsterdam: Elsevier…. From the entry stillstand
• The moderants used in many nitro-cellulose powders tend to cooler burning and reduce the rate of erosion.1946, Colonel Townsend Whelan, Small Arms Design and Ballistics, volume II Ballistics, Small Arms Technical Publishing Company, page 20. From the entry moderant
• Its erosion is a constant process of alternate rough hewing and planing.1915, George Wharton James, The Lake of the Sky. From the entry rough-hew
• The erosion of trust doesn't require intent, it only requires the blind pursuit of self-interest above all else.2023 May 8, Charles Hugh Smith, Once Trust Has Been Lost, There's No Going Back. From the entry pursuit
• Around 34 miles of the Wales Route's coastal lines are vulnerable to overtopping, coastal erosion and storm surges.2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 60. From the entry overtopping
• Wave erosion causes a sea cliff to migrate landward, leaving a gently sloping surface, called a wave-cut platform.2019, Reed Wicander, James S. Monroe, Geology: Earth in Perspective, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 319. From the entry platform
• My paternal grandfather U May Oung, a Rakhaing, feared the erosion of the Buddhist way of life under colonial rule.2019, Kin Thida Oung, The Road from Mandalay. From the entry Rakhaing
• “Soil erosion was serious and farmland was left idle.2017 September 12, Chris Buckley, “After Toiling in Rural China, a Protégé of Xi Jinping Joins Party’s Top Tiers”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Liupanshui
• Perhaps these principles will bleed into other fields of biology, leading to erosion of the traditional emphasis on proprietarity.2017, Andrew W. Torrance, “Better to Give Than to Receive: An Uncommon Commons in Synthetic Biology”, in Brett M. Frischmann, Katherine J.…. From the entry proprietarity
• Every mountain in Petra has carved water channels in the indigenous stone that catch the seasonal erosion floods.2015 fall, Michael R. Walker, “Monumental Task”, in BYU Magazine, Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry catchment
• Thus, biofilm growth could significantly enhance biostabilization, with biofilm-infused bed sediments requiring more energy for erosion relative to clean sediment.2015 November 12, “Biostabilization and Transport of Cohesive Sediment Deposits in the Three Gorges Reservoir”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry biostabilization
• Sometimes, the underlying layers are exposed by erosion, revealing the story of the rocks like an open book.2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition. From the entry layer
• Allowing for erosion it is estimated that that its 45° slope from bank top to dyke bottom was originally 12m.2012, David S Neal, Angela Wardle, Jonathan Hunn, Excavation of the Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Settlement at Gorhambury, St Albans, page…. From the entry dyke bottom
• Vetiver grass is the only species that is effective for controlling soil erosion on steep terrains (30 and 60% slope).2008, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Principles of Soil Conservation and Management, page 237. From the entry vetiver
• "In experiments, stone mulching decreases soil water evaporation, protects against wind and rain erosion, and reduces daily temperature fluctuation."2007, Jared Diamond, “Easter Island Revisited”, in Science, 317(5845), page 1693. From the entry stone mulching
• As a consequence, the turbiditic currents of marly mud are not able to cause erosion similar to those of siliciclastic mud.2007, William Miller, Trace Fossils, →ISBN, page 257. From the entry turbiditic
• These monoliths exhibit advanced erosion and deep patination.2004, Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, The Rock-Art of Eastern North America, page 142. From the entry ribstone
• Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren.2002, “Cleaning the Yellow River”, in 修月祯 [Xiu Yuezhen], editor, 旅游英语教程 [Lü you ying yu jiao cheng], Beijing: Renmin University of China…. From the entry Shanxi
• It may be that erosion or metamorphism destroyed traces of Hadean life, or that Hadean time preceded the evolution of life.1998, Graham R. Thompson, Jonathan Turk, Introduction to Physical Geology, page 150. From the entry Hadean time

Meaning of erosion

1. noun The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
2. noun The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
3. noun The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.

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How do you use erosion in a sentence?

Erosion is used as a noun. For example: “The back and forth movement of the tide causes erosion of the coastline.”

What is a short sentence with erosion?

“the erosion of a person's trust”

What does erosion mean?

Erosion means the result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.