What is "sandpapery"

Usage examples of "sandpapery".

He stepped forward to touch the smooth, yet slightly sandpapery gray walls, and then they lit up, this time bright, filled with hundreds of different images!

The first two days his face got sandpapery the way it always did on weekends.

Something about his sandpapery explosion of alien sound and his hopping suggested amusement.

The untrimmed edges of the superleech were irregular and curly, and its wavy surface was covered with tiny bumps that gave it a sandpapery feel.

Her dark scalp was gristled with the sandpapery nubbins the clippers had left behind.

The heavy, tepid atmosphere, the rich organic fragrance of the forest, the muted sounds of mutable creatures rustling unseen in the undergrowth, and the light sandpapery feel of the tree bark where it brushed against his bare skin, all combined to weaken his resistance.

The sandpapery beginnings of a ginger-colored beard stubble scratched at the smoothness of her cheek.

She felt his sandpapery fingertips on her cheek as he turned her face back and gently kissed her lips.

I felt her tears as if they were my own and imagined I could feel the faint sandpapery sensation of my beard against her cheek.

Three mornings later, as Mears waits for Leon in the gym, he listens happily to the slapping of jump ropes, the grunt and thud of someone working the heavy bag, the jabber and pop of speed bags, fighters shouting encouragement, the sandpapery whisk of shoes on canvas, the meaty thump of fourteen-ounce sparring gloves.

Virtually never the same color twice, they had a varying texture that ranged from smooth and warm to sandpapery and oddly cool.

He did not speak much: this we had witnessed ourselves as Jennifer, who prides herself on being able to have a conversation with any living human being, availed herself of every opportunity to ask Nicholas questions, about himself, his career, what he was engaged in currently, that he answered in monosyllables when possible, clipped phrases when not, his voice when he spoke the sandpapery rasp of one unaccustomed to frequent speech.

Spagg made a sandpapery sound with his filthy fingers, as if kneading dough.

And off she went after Areinnye—into the water fouled with stirred-up slime and ink and blood, into the reach of grabbing, sandpapery tentacles and the glare of yellow eyes.

Matt nuzzled his face into her hair, the raw silk sheets clean and sweet against the sandpapery texture of his unshaven cheek.