sandpaper
IPA: sˈændpeɪpɝ
noun
- (uncountable) Strong paper coated with (traditionally) sand or (today) manufactured aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, or other abrasive material, used for smoothing and polishing.
- (countable) A sheet of such paper.
verb
- (transitive) To polish or grind (a surface) with or as if with sandpaper.
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Examples of "sandpaper" in Sentences
- Glued to the sandpaper is a tiny cutout image of a woman's shoe.
- Finishing materials such as sandpaper, shellac, varnish, paint, and thinner may also be needed.
- I had to use very fine grain sandpaper to get rid of one big scratch, but now the whole screen is hazy.
- Contemporaneously the child is taught to recognise and touch some of the letters of the alphabet made in sandpaper.
- At this point, if the child already knows how to write, we may present the figures cut in sandpaper and mounted upon cards.
- Mr. Culler says he hopes the Cubitron II technology will eventually be applied to the kind of sandpaper people use at home.
- Cards upon which the single letters of the alphabet are mounted in sandpaper; larger cards containing groups of the same letters.
- In addition to these alphabets we have a set of the capital letters mounted in sandpaper upon cardboard, and another, in which they are cut from cardboard.
- Something a lot more important is that I finally cut off my goatee, tears were shed and stories told then WHAM! after seven months of growth my manly mug was as smooth as a babies butt with fine grain sandpaper stuck to it.
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