rough-textured love

Definitions

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  • adjective having surface roughness

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Examples

  • The sisal flooring was deliciously rough-textured beneath our feet.

    January 2009 2009

  • The sisal flooring was deliciously rough-textured beneath our feet.

    Sunlight through windows 2009

  • Though rough-textured and unfinished, it was an immense improvement over the crinkly foil he and Squill had spellsung up.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • He said engineers hope to improve on their initial performance by preceding a mud injection with a blast of rubber balls and other rough-textured materials -- a "junk shot" -- to clog the blowout preventer and force more mud down into the hole, rather than shooting it out of the leaks in the riser.

    Estimates of oil leak gush past twice the previous levels; drill permits yanked 2010

  • He said engineers hoped to improve on their initial performance by preceding a mud injection with a blast of rubber balls and other rough-textured materials -- the "junk shot" -- to clog the blowout preventer and force more mud down into the hole, rather than shooting it out of the leaks in the riser.

    Obama heads to Gulf Coast a second time as oil spill's impact grows 2010

  • "Spain, 2003" is a small, begonia-like potted plant shot from overhead on a rough-textured surface further complicated by crisscrossing, but indeterminate, shadows.

    Elegance in the Ordinary William Meyers 2010

  • He said engineers hoped to improve on their initial performance by preceding a mud injection with a blast of rubber balls and other rough-textured materials -- the "junk shot" -- to clog the blowout preventer and force more mud down into the hole, rather than shooting it out of the leaks in the riser.

    Obama heads to Gulf Coast a second time as oil spill's impact grows 2010

  • "Spain, 2003" is a small, begonia-like potted plant shot from overhead on a rough-textured surface further complicated by crisscrossing, but indeterminate, shadows.

    Elegance in the Ordinary William Meyers 2010

  • He said engineers hope to improve on their initial performance by preceding a mud injection with a blast of rubber balls and other rough-textured materials -- a "junk shot" -- to clog the blowout preventer and force more mud down into the hole, rather than shooting it out of the leaks in the riser.

    Estimates of oil leak gush past twice the previous levels; drill permits yanked 2010

  • This particular paper, which I found last month, is rough-textured, heavy paper, black on one side and a rich blood red on the other.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Bruce Schauble 2009

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