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
Born Tyrone Griffin Jr., Ty Dolla Sign is known for his gruff sandpaper vocals and memorable hooks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Former opener David Warner taught batter Cameron Bancroft how to use sandpaper to rough up the ball, and Bancroft was then caught doing so by TV cameras during play.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
“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
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
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
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
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
Together, they sandpapered off the album’s rough edges, rerecording vocals and sometimes writing entire new verses.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2013
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
