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

Tripp's lawyers said the ruling was inconsequential in the "war of attrition.
After all, according to the LAT , in the Army the difference in the attrition rates for men and women is 19 percent, while by the NYT 's own lights, there are only 37 women generals or admirals.
The conventional wisdom, distilled last week by the Los Angeles Times , is that Saddam is shrewdly provoking the allies and that they're taking the bait, engaging in a "war of attrition" that will "keep world attention focused" on Iraq and leave the United States "looking like a bully."
However, I have the same criticism of Philip Howard's commentaries on language published, from time to time, in The Times and, formerly, in these pages, and I can only attribute attrition among VERBATIM subscribers to that and other weaknesses in myself.
John McCain's War of Attrition