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Example sentences for: abrasive

How can you use “abrasive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"Welles was at the peak of his talent in Touch of Evil , but let's never forget what an abrasive, high-wire, self-destructive talent he was" (Edelstein).
Gels use silica as an abrasive to help polish teeth.
The approach of the 50 th anniversary of the foundation of Israel failed to generate harmony in the Israeli press, which continued in traditional abrasive form.
Bancroft is so spectacularly abrasive that it's scandalous that she doesn't get the incendiary comeuppance of Dickens' novel--that objective-correlative finale in which the seething, dried-out harridan spontaneously combusts.
Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.