roughen
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Red whirls on this rabbit’s tongue are filiform papillae, which roughen the tongue and help move food around the mouth.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
The general idea is that ground surfaces roughen after the mass movement of rocks and soil, so that landslide deposits are the roughest right after the landslide occurs and become smoother over time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
The narrative swerves enough to thrillingly roughen the course of love, and the characters are so memorable that readers will yearn for a third book.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2015
“If you’re going out, I would apply Conformist Hair Paste to roughen up the texture,” he says.
From Forbes ● Jun. 10, 2014
We did not venture far out into the lake, for it was already beginning to roughen.
From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse
Wells has a deep, oaky baritone that roughens to a grumble in its lower register.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Reproving puts on a stern aspect, roughens the voice, and is accompanied with gestures not much different from those of Threatening, but not so lively.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
Further, that the prettied of faces roughens and bristles into an ugly one, when it expresses anger with the feminine recruiting officer more than pity for the deserter.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
Sometimes he slightly roughens the surface of the material, to give better foothold to pedestrians.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 by Various
He undulates the surface, he raises it in hills, scoops it into vallies, and roughens it with rocks.
Auto-tune aside, fans will notice that Thorn's voice has deepened and roughened.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2023
To achieve the shells’ luminous surfaces, Utzon covered them with more than a million handcrafted ceramic tiles, their surfaces roughened by trace amounts of crushed stone, a technique inspired by Japanese pottery.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
It was more like a shift in temperature or light, a texture inside of me that roughened.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2021
He sang his conversational lyrics in a voice roughened by a hard-luck life, particularly after throat cancer left him with a disfigured jaw.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
In the morning, bright sunlight turned the roughened water into patches of flashing silver.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Though it may seem counterintuitive, roughening a ball’s surface delays the separation of the boundary layer and keeps a ball in turbulent flow longer.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022
“When I close my eyes, I can still feel that moment,” said the other daughter, Samia, her voice roughening as her eyes filled with tears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
Instead he interprets traditional Yolngu chants, raising and roughening his gentle voice while a Western orchestra plays churning, minimalist accompaniments around him.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2018
Wilmington’s Council had been closing shortfalls of 5 percent to 10 percent for several years, and the compounding effect was roughening the edges of a city that aggressively marketed its coastal quality of life.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2011
My throat began to ache and my voice dropped, roughening into a deep crackle, as if my vocal cords had turned to sandpaper.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
