Example sentences for: corrosive

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

  • But on the whole, I think he was a positive force in the way he reduced the rancor and disillusionment that had grown so corrosive in the late '60s and '70s.

  • Thus jewelers' pickling solution, used to dissolve surface sulfides from precious metals and marketed under such trade names as Dixcel or Sparex, is sodium hyposulfate (NaHSO4;), far less corrosive than the sulfuric acid it replaced in everyday use.

  • These practices are corrosive to the health professions as they taint all health professionals and erode trust in them.

  • This deliciously backhanded phrase--an allusion to Czechoslovakia's "socialism with a human face," which was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968--conveyed three corrosive messages: that conservatism lacked compassion to begin with, that conservatives couldn't tolerate compassion, and that for this reason, conservatism, like socialism, was doomed.

  • How corrosive is fame?


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