sandpaper
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Even though the sponge feels soft, its internal structure acts like extremely fine sandpaper.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2026
It took a lot to bestir Angelenos from their bungalows and Buicks, but their throats felt like sandpaper, and their chests hurt like the blazes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
“Hard Truths” is sublime and soft in the way that a rough surface is smoothed to the touch by sandpaper.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025
You’ll want clamps of various sizes to hold pieces together while drilling or assembling, along with sandpaper in a range of grits.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024
Eric looks from me to Tobias and laughs, too loudly and for too long—the sound is menacing and grates against me like sandpaper.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
The team used 31 industrial sandpapers with surfaces of varying roughness, ranging from 1 to 100 microns thick, as experimental targets.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
Those pulses passed through transceivers, encountered the sandpapers, then rebounded back through the system for analysis by the team's learning model.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
My daughter had gone to a big box store and was overwhelmed by the selection of sandpapers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
As you use aluminum oxide sandpapers, the fragments break off creating a new sharpened edge.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Tiny saws, tacks, gouges, carving chisels, fine-gritted sandpapers.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Political power sandpapered the edges of her idealism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
"Chattering" is driven by synthetic rhythms, layers of sandpapered guitar textures and barely audible human voices that seem just out of reach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2018
Traditional exfoliators like fruit enzymes or glycolic acid leave her looking as if she had sandpapered her face.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2016
Her take on that sound is sandpapered flat and polished to a sheen.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2014
It was an old Gibson guitar, sandpapered and waxed to a honey- yellow finish.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
It was the same tenacity required in Cape Town in 2018, amidst a worldwide furore after his teammates were caught sandpapering a match ball.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2020
Unlike Billie or Lana or Ariana, all of whom are sandpapering their aesthetics down to the micron, Lizzo is full of surprise, and hopefully will remain that way.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020
For the last two weeks, the show’s team has been sandpapering its format and appearance, though Mr. Rydholm said more changes were likely to come once there’s comfort with the same-day taping-and-editing schedule.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2016
This time Hart is neither sandpapering comedy gags nor polishing dramatic commonplaces.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. T. was on him immediately, muddy paws all over the beige raincoat, and pink tongue sandpapering Jesse’s wet face.
From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson
