Example Sentences

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For 45 minutes, a “Q-facial” machine sprayed, vacuumed, exfoliated and hydrated my face, delivering ultrasonic waves at two different depths.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The quality of the OF-CVD-grown samples proved virtually identical to that of exfoliated graphene.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

Not really knowing how well your feet will be exfoliated is up for question.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2022

Then, as it dries out on a rock, it is patiently exfoliated by sunset-colored crabs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2019

In Miller's aerial photo the mountain looked particularly sinister: a huge fin of exfoliated stone, dark and smeared with ice.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer