Sentence examples for roughen from inspiring English sources

It becomes an offence to tamper with the ball (Pakistani bowlers used bottle tops to roughen the leather surface of the ball), or waste time (a captain can move his fielders after each ball), or distract the opposition by "sledging" (while batting at Lord's last summer, England's Graham Thorpe was reminded by the New Zealand fielders of an alleged sexual indiscretion).

Sanders are also used to roughen surfaces in preparation for finishing.

style that incorporated live looping and sampling, tapping out counter-rhythms to roughen up the smooth house records he loves — in his sets, the choppy and propulsive spirit of Baltimore club music lives on.

Altman's felt it and put man on front steps to roughen them with hatchet, so no one would slip trying to get inside.

Scarpa's genius was in fusing glass's inherent unpredictability with a Palladian rationality: even when submerging urns in acid to roughen their surfaces, he drew plans like the architect he would become, down to the elevations.

The pitchers, given their range of opportunities to scuff, roughen, darken, or slime the ball and thereby cause it to imitate a Frisbee or a fruit bat or a diving cormorant as it approaches the plate, have not exactly lagged behind.

Heteropterans produce sounds by moving one roughened member over a roughened area of body surface.

Since leaving the Quai d'Orsay to become interior minister, he has roughened his edges in the company of policemen and firemen.

Richard Batterbee, who works on such pond life at London's University College, says that water from the borehole that supplies the fountain is rich in nitrates, phosphates and silica, providing a nutritious diet for the little green menaces.The authorities are now having the surface of the stone roughened and it is to be scrubbed clean every week.

Roughened finishing is used when the die skin is removed by various means.

As in the water roughened by the north wind a fish jumps in the weed of the beach-break, then the dark water closes above him, so Euryalos left the ground from the blow, but great-hearted Epeios took him in his arms and set him upright, and his true companions stood about him, and led him out of the circle, feet dragging as he spat up the thick blood and rolled his head over on one side.