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sandblast
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a blast of wind laden with sand v. grind with a sandblast; "sandblast the facade of the building"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To spray with fast moving solid grains (such as sand propelled by compressed 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 ...
Usage examples of sandblast.
Certainly, nothing survived in the path of a sandblast storm on Arrakis.
He pointed up the dune face and beyond it where they could see a rock tower undercut by sandblast winds.
He sat back briefly and zipped his top up to the neck in readiness for the sandblast of alpine air that was to come.
Winds jerked the aluminum up and a sandblast of heat and ash choked her.
He nodded toward a place ahead where sandblasted ridges lifted into moonlight above the dunes.
The flower beds have been reconstituted, the exterior sandblasted, the ravages of time and vandalism repaired, though dark wings of soot are still visible around the lower windows, from the fire over sixty years ago.
Kansas dust storms had sandblasted it right down to weatherbeaten wood and were now stripping the wood down to tarpaper.
A brutal dust storm had come screaming through an hour before that had torn away placards and shingles, sandblasted cars and houses, knocked down trees, and reduced visibility to a few hundred yards.
Despite extensive renovation and renewal, bums and addicts could often be found in the mornings, asleep in the sandblasted doorways or beside the struggling saplings in their fancy wooden planter boxes.
All the flesh had tightened back against the underlay of bone: his face looked as if the surroundings had sandblasted it a long time before.
For half an hour, the only sound in the room is the tapping of the typewriter and the hiss of the sandblasting across the street.
Ulster Scarlett brownstone on Fifty-fourth Street was being repainted and sandblasted.
Scores of old buildings in the city centre have been sandblasted and lovingly buffed, so that their granite surfaces gleam anew, and dozens more were vigorously erected in the heady boom years of the 1980s - more than £.
He is wearing a shirt cut from very fine gray cotton flannel, its collar buttoned but tieless, French cuffs secured with plain round links of sandblasted platinum.
I shaved, sprayed on some deodorant, ferreted some food particles out of my teeth with dental floss, then sandblasted with the electric toothbrush and gargled with mouth wash.