Example sentences for: corrosive

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

  • The paper complained in an editorial that "the corrosive tawdriness of political populism" was delaying relief efforts, with government and opposition politicians arguing about money and whether there should be a formal declaration of a national calamity.

  • 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.

  • Personnel collecting effluent samples and conducting toxicity tests should take all safety precautions necessary for the prevention of bodily injury and illness which might result from ingestion or invasion of infectious agents, inhalation or absorption of corrosive or toxic substances through skin contact, and asphyxiation due to lack of oxygen or presence of noxious gases.

  • Some higher efficiency boilers may have increased flue gas velocities and can result in corrosive flue gas "blow through" to the absorber.

  • 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.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast