Sentence examples for a sandpaper from inspiring English sources

Would they combine to provide a sandpaper effect?

That would be King, whose personality developed a sandpaper edge from grinding during tournament weeks.

The bill comes in a sandpaper envelope; it might as well just say, "Ouch!" You'd probably hate it.

Litigation has meant that the cross spent recent years capped with a plywood box — looking like a sandpaper lollipop.

But the team's data suggest that simple friction may apply the brakes, as if the ice cube has a sandpaper bottom.

The other love-in was for some American men who've been, variously, an illustrator, a trucker, a teacher, a counsellor and a worker at a sandpaper factory.

Skinny Girl Diet are a fearsome, semi-feral outfit with a sandpaper-throated singer who makes her most obvious influence, Courtney Love, sound like Dido.

Claire-Louise Cordwell impresses as Jamie's mum, a sandpaper-tongued Bermondsey barmaid; Tara Hodge makes an impressively spaced-out contribution as a noisy neighbour with a bizarre Mama Cass fixation.

In the autumn, when freezing temperatures approach, machines that spit gritty materials of carefully chosen diameters head out early to lay the groundwork for a sandpaper-like surface in time for the morning rush.

After that, she wrapped my feet, covered now by a callus exfoliating mask, in pieces of cellophane, inserted them into toasty terry booties and after a few minutes, unwrapped them again and began scrubbing briskly with a pumice stone and a sandpaper-like scrubber.

The whistling on the soundtrack comes from the Sergio Leone composer Ennio Morricone, and the American avenger, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), is a nod to the Hollywood actor Aldo Ray, a sandpaper-voiced 1950s Everyman who often seemed most at ease wearing Army fatigues, as he does in Anthony Mann's 1957 masterpiece "Men in War".