Definitions
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- adjective Resembling
sandpaper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the abrasive texture of sandpaper
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Examples
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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.
Nina Sankovitch: The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepulveda Nina Sankovitch 2011
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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.
Nina Sankovitch: The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepulveda Nina Sankovitch 2011
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“They have glue on one side and are kind of sandpapery on the other.”
The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011
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“They have glue on one side and are kind of sandpapery on the other.”
The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011
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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.
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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.
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I swallowed against my suddenly sandpapery throat.
SCANDAL KATE BRIAN 2010
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Burnsy, Serious Kitten wanted me to tell you to be careful if you adopt Concerned Cat, as his tongue is extra sandpapery.
COMMENTS OF THE WEEK 2008
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But Boycott was the star: sandpapery and cussed and not yet mad enough that he has stopped making sense.
Cricket fails the cool test even with disco umpires and crick-babes 2010
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I smacked my lips, cringing at the dry, sandpapery sensation of my tongue scraping the roof of my mouth.
And One Last Thing… Molly Harper 2010
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