Sentence examples for to roughened from inspiring English sources

By 1965 numerous US cities already had skateboarding bans, while 50 years later "skate stopper" devices (ranging from metal prongs on ledges to roughened pavement surfaces) have mushroomed across city squares worldwide, spoiling skateboard fun with universal determination.

Results: Host cells and isolated human neutrophils died rapidly after adhesion to roughened polystyrene.

Conclusions: Neutrophil adhesion to roughened materials triggers rapid production of reactive oxygen species and precipitates a nonapoptotic cell death.

Neutrophils adherent to roughened surfaces produced more reactive oxygen intermediates than those adherent to smooth surfaces and were first to die.

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

"You just want to roughen it up so the paint will adhere," he said.

If working on a painted surface, sand enough to roughen it, so a new layer of paint will stick.

Everybody carried a Jiffy patching set, with a nutmeg grater to roughen the tube before the goo was spread 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.

Cedric the Entertainer is on hand as Sin LaSalle, a music producer who went to the Wharton School but has learned to roughen up his talk.

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