| Until now, conventional hydraulic oil would break down sooner, leaving your machine's metal abrasively scraping against metal. |
| In the poems, surface trivialities glide abrasively against densely crystallized ideas, producing a kinetic friction. |
| In fact, Elmer Rice's 1923 expressionist satire seems abrasively modern in its attack on the dehumanising effect of industrial capitalism. |
| Logical explanations, though, are less interesting than the overall mood of menace that Wheatley instils in this ordinary world of suburban discontent – not least, through Jim Williams's abrasively oppressive score. |
| Mabor Achol likes to be acting abrasively which is abusive behaviour, insensitive to the needs of others, distant, aloof and arrogant. |
| Spa therapy abrasively cleans the skin. It becomes more supple and smoothness lasts several months. |
