sandpapery

IPA: sˈændpeɪpɝi

Examples of "sandpapery" in Sentences

I swallowed against my suddenly sandpapery throat.
“They have glue on one side and are kind of sandpapery on the other.”
But Boycott was the star: sandpapery and cussed and not yet mad enough that he has stopped making sense.
I smacked my lips, cringing at the dry, sandpapery sensation of my tongue scraping the roof of my mouth.
Burnsy, Serious Kitten wanted me to tell you to be careful if you adopt Concerned Cat, as his tongue is extra sandpapery.
Each character, from anarchist to policeman, resonates; they flash with moments of decency and bravery and then sinking back into ordinary life, complaining about the sandpapery quality of Chilean wine, the non-existence of good Chilean coffee, and the constant downpour of rain.
Having lost our founding member to some serious personal issues, we were now trying to make lemonade out of a lemon with a sandpapery five note range who I'd just hired against the other two Planets 'protests, frankly, because he looked a lot like my hero, Pete Townshend, and seemed like a nice (malleable) guy.  
Inside, I am burning up, remembering in an ER-style giddy camera montage the blood I was always vomiting into toilets, the lies I told GPs, the DTs, which had me rocking on the lip of my bed, Arctic shivery as a flock of bluebirds swooped past my face, the dull, thorny throb of the intravenous drip in hospital as I lay in a sandpapery gown, finally convinced that it must stop.