Combat generally involves a slow attrition of damage over multiple turns of the game.

Centuries, certainly, thousands of years, perhaps, wind-blown dust, rain, the slow, relentless attrition of the years.

Three major waves of firings or resignations followed, as did a slow attrition of employees.

Instead they were reduced to the slow attrition of a tonnage war.

In many theatres of operation, mobile campaigns degenerated into static trench warfare, depending on the slow attrition of the enemy over many years for victory.

I believe that Bassi was tired of waiting, tired of the slow attrition of the blockade.

But the real losses in princely revenues were to secular lords, by a process of slow attrition.

He hopes to drag out this fight, to bleed us dry through slow attrition.

It took us months of harrying the beast, wearing it away by slow attrition.

But it is a death by slow attrition.