Noun : Our club has had a high rate of attrition because so many members have moved away. ,The enemy surrounded the town and conducted a war of attrition.    From Dictionary.com. 

Liverpool, meanwhile, have been making what might kindly be called attritional progress up the table, returning to stability after a miserable winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

In polite company, diplomats describe dealing with Chinese ministries as "attritional", but in private, diplomats of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

"attritional" but in private diplomats of all European countries are growing used to being bullied and brow-beaten by the officials of an increasingly strident Chinese state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Bleeding the enemy white is a good attritional strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

Strategy is the name of the game as is attritional warfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference

To unbelievers, cricket, and Test cricket in particular, is attritional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

He was attritional, making a virtue out of what others might term boredom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ashes 2010: England's beanpole bowlers deliver big advantage] Reference

About avoiding a draining, attritional conflict and finding another way to win.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun Tzu: The Best Leadership Teacher Of All Time?] Reference

Being an exiled writer was attritional, and beyond that it was perspectiveless.    From Wordnik.com.  [61 entries from August 2006] Reference

Argentina, Italy, Ireland ? are going to come at us with that same attritional game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Johnson's England look fragile after battle with South Africa] Reference

I love absorbing attritional cricket but this format demands a bit of oomph every now and again.    From Wordnik.com.  [England v Pakistan – as it happened!] Reference

Above all there will be one bill which offers the prospect of an attritional battle to be waged.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Verdun, Gentlemen] Reference

Worcestershire 55 for one off 32 overs against Northants? sounds like an attritional morning at New Road.    From Wordnik.com.  [County cricket - as it happened!] Reference

"We're not in the business of conducting an attritional campaign," Gen. Carter said recently of Kandahar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Petraeus's Opportunity] Reference

That is not what you self insure , you self Insure the attritional running costs Winter repairs that sort of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday Open Thread] Reference

After Super Tuesday, while Clinton's campaign was functionally shot, Obama was already moving smoothly into an attritional war, one in which the 'net provided a critical edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Internet Put Barack Obama in the White House] Reference

The results of Westmoreland's attritional strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The attritional effect of repeated raids may be very great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Military Decision] Reference

The relentless attritional style has left England team manager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

They were, however, quite familiar with attritional strategies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The battle for free expression in the UK has become attritional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Half time: Aston Villa 0-0 Chelsea A quiet end to a largely attritional half.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

But his early Blitzkreig foundered and the attritional Robredo clawed it back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

And so it proved with the early stages setting the tone for an attritional affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines] Reference

I believe one of the things you mentioned was low rate and high attritional losses.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Another demonstration of guile, well-rehearsed tactics, and clinical, attritional play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea Blog] Reference

Yes, and also attritional losses - attritional property losses were low for the quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

But England was lucky to have trailed only 9-6 at the end of an attritional first 40 minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

The Blackburn fans are telling him that they have had enough of dreary, attritional football.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

First, there had been a period of several years of low premium rates and high attritional losses.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Yet, untouchable on Teesside, they resorted to the attritional against stubborn opponents last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference

There is little doubt that other such grim milestones will be reached in this bitter attritional struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

An attritional seventh saw Higgins emerge winner, though he enjoyed some luck while little went Carter's way.    From Wordnik.com.  [ireland.com Breaking News] Reference

The most obvious thing is that the pace has been slowed down to make for a more ponderous, attritional kickabout.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He has finished placed in three of the last four runnings and is at least one who is going to handle the attritional conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference

It would be another nine years before rationing was finally ended in 1954, nine long years of attritional discomfort and privation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Oil News] Reference

In an attritional first set of strenuous rallies, Davydenko, 27, got the decisive break at 5-3 and went ahead with a service winner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference