sandpaper

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Recent Examples of sandpaper Both Lowe's and HGTV recommend a scoring tool or sandpaper to perforate the paper slightly so the water solution has easier access to the adhesive. Anna Kaufman, The Tennessean, 20 Oct. 2024 Konecny would also inject some edge and sandpaper with his fiery, energizing playstyle. Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024 After its mining operations flopped, the company pivoted to sandpaper and then to a series of clever inventions aimed at improving everyday life. Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024 Among them – 3M, a giant company that has manufactured everything from masking tape to sandpaper to a synthetic rubber used in space boots. Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sandpaper
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Verb
  • The case, originally filed in 2012, accused Sutter of attempting to amass monopoly power in northern California through all-or-nothing contracts, requiring insurers to include all of its hospitals and physician groups in health plans.
    Annika Merrilees, Sacbee.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Queues of faithful filed into St. Peter's throughout the night and in the early hours of Friday, on the last day to bid farewell to Pope Francis ahead of his funeral on April 26.
    USA Today, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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  • Tommaso Ciampa has recently undergone a noticeable change in appearance by shaving off his trademark beard.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
  • With cord-cutting continuing to shave the traditional pay-TV bundle by millions of subscribers a year, however, FAST has become an increasingly vibrant part of the TV ecosystem.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • If another caterpillar wanders into their territory, these tiny critters start furiously drumming their heads, shaking their bodies and scraping their butts against the leaf—a series of complex vibratory behaviors to signal that their leaf tip is off-limits.
    Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Sifting and scraping toxic particles would only further the ongoing coastal erosion, which is its own climate change impact.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Gently rub away any remaining margarine with a paper towel.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Sometimes even small things can rub a customer wrong.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps that’s why people around the world have had the impulse to gnaw on tacky materials—roots, resins, twigs, blubber, tar made by burning birch bark—for at least 8,000 years.
    Hannah Seo, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2025
  • But his work, even at its most tendentious, speaks uncannily to our current political mood of gnawing anxiety, fleeting optimism, and partial resignation over the future of the human project.
    Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • No record could be found documenting the method used to remove them, but historical letters and news clippings referred to techniques that would have resulted in destruction, including dousing them with lye, chipping them off the wall and sandblasting them.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The blue words were sandblasted by a headstone business, which then spray painted the letters.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Calhanoglu then returns the ball to Darmian… … who finds Mkhitaryan’s run… … before the Armenia midfielder sets up Thuram, whose scuffed shot loops over the goalkeeper and into the net.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Crafted with rubber soles designed with traction and typically using white or natural rubber that won’t scuff white boat decks, boat shoes are great for slippery surfaces, gangways, and ports.
    Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2025
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  • Restaurants now have social media accounts, websites lousy with photos of both food and atmosphere, and online menus available to scour.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Every doctor had told her and her husband to stop trying for a baby and, as a last resort, Toland was up late one night, scouring the internet for any glimmer of hope.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Sandpaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandpaper. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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