No wound heals well when it is constantly and daily abraded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persistence is Futile] Reference

His thumb skimmed gently over her bruised, abraded knuckles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Bargain]

Ooooh, someone's delicate sensibilities got a tiny bit abraded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary News Accounts Undermine GOP Denials on Confederate Statues] Reference

The sound of heavy breathing abraded against the silence between us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Lear: Storstad] Reference

If you -- your teeth are suddenly feeling a bit abraded, are they not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perils Of Brushing] Reference

It is particularly useful for deep burns where the surface is abraded.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference

Sharp projections along the way snagged and abraded their protective suits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference

The coarse fabric abraded her, making her even more sensitive to his touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thief Of Hearts]

It was a jagged laceration at least two inches long with badly abraded edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatal Care]

The nubby fabric abraded her skin, but the sensation was comforting, familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Midnight Hour] Reference

(The Virgin's somewhat splotchy mantle is equally unfinished or else abraded.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Unfinished Perfection] Reference

The tip of his nose was an abraded pink that vibrated slightly with every word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Lines]

Her hatred washed like a visible tide over sensibilities already abraded and tender.    From Wordnik.com.  [the ship who sang]

After death the mucous membrane of the entire canal is charred, softened, and abraded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

He couldn't stop grinning, even though it made his sand-abraded face hurt a great deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference

Stale smoky air hung in the study with the smell of drab abraded leather of its chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Oddly shaped rocks, dimly seen, strengthened the impression of wind-abraded topography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question of Comfort] Reference

That exchange itself tightened her nerves, left her senses in a state of abraded alert.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of His Own]

As they exchanged greetings, Mary found her instincts immediately abraded and sensitized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whispers Of Betrayal]

Possibly the gums or the inside of the cheeks may have been scratched or abraded with a pin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

She held up her right palm, broadly abraded round the base, where her hand had struck the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

At frequent intervals, each sample is weighed to determine the amount of material abraded away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Heat flared along every nerve ending Chase abraded and those that tightened around Cam's erection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wicked Pleasures]

Her nipples drew up tight and hard and the soft fabric of her jogging suit abraded the tender tips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sexy Beast IV]

And what becomes of the skin, ordinarily so delicate, so easily abraded or pierced, so readily injured?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference

Anderson walked over to the doctor and stood watching him clean up the abraded bruise on Ives 'forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking Point] Reference

Both of these natural stones scratched, abraded, and dented easily in our barrage of kitchen-abuse tests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A: Which countertop material is toughest?] Reference

The vegetation on the banks is so thickly planted that the surface of the earth is not abraded by the torrents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

The lunar caustic was applied extensively over the wound and abraded parts and induced little bleeding or pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference

They had long streaks of abraded skin, torn shirt, and blood on them, leading down into the guts of the fountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

It is surrounded by an abraded coral platform 200 to 600 m in width, which emerges at low tide carpeted with algae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub] Reference

A bruise may be distinguished from a post-mortem stain by the cuticle in the former often being abraded and raised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

"Though his face is chapped and abraded by years of anger, disappointment, alcohol, and boredom, he looks like a kid," she notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing? Neo-Nazi Joins Anti-Hate Group] Reference

A slender hand, fingernails thick with dirt, skin abraded on the back, reached over and brushed the flies away from his forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness of the Light] Reference

In this process the glass is abraded by the use of sand or emery rubbed over it by properly shaped pieces of iron or lead called "tools.".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference