Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A blast of air or steam carrying sand at high velocity to etch glass or to clean stone or metal surfaces.
- noun A machine used to apply such a blast.
- noun A strong wind carrying sand along.
- transitive verb To apply a sandblast to (a building, for example).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To spray with fast moving solid grains (such as
sand propelled bycompressed air , although softer material like sodium bicarbonate used for delicate materials may also be so referred to). The process is used for stripping dirt, rust, paint etc. from the surface of objects.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a blast of wind laden with sand
- verb grind with a sandblast
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Examples
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My old apartment building, built by a great uncle's bankrupt family company, is getting a sandblast.
Peter Mandel: The World's Toughest Trip? It's Trying to Go Home Peter Mandel 2011
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My old apartment building, built by a great uncle's bankrupt family company, is getting a sandblast.
Peter Mandel: The World's Toughest Trip? It's Trying to Go Home Peter Mandel 2011
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My old apartment building, built by a great uncle's bankrupt family company, is getting a sandblast.
Peter Mandel: The World's Toughest Trip? It's Trying to Go Home Peter Mandel 2011
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The best way to do this is to sandblast the radiators.
Do-it-yourselfer Q&A 2011
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There is weight behind them, and the impact of the driven water is like a sandblast.
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My old apartment building, built by a great uncle's bankrupt family company, is getting a sandblast.
Peter Mandel: The World's Toughest Trip? It's Trying to Go Home Peter Mandel 2011
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Ash and grit from volcanic eruptions can sabotage a plane in various ways: the abrasive ash can sandblast a jet's windshield, block fuel nozzles, contaminate the oil system and electronics and plug the tubes that sense airspeed.
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Ash and grit from volcanic eruptions can sabotage a plane in various ways: the abrasive ash can sandblast a jet's windshield, block fuel nozzles, contaminate the oil system and electronics and plug the tubes that sense airspeed.
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Ash and grit from volcanic eruptions can sabotage a plane in many ways: the abrasive ash can sandblast a jet's windshield, block fuel nozzles, contaminate the oil system and electronics and plug the tubes that sense airspeed.
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Ash and grit from volcanic eruptions can sabotage a plane in many ways: the abrasive ash can sandblast a jet's windshield, block fuel nozzles, contaminate the oil system and electronics and plug the tubes that sense airspeed.
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