had sandpapered
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past perfectof sandpaper.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Traditional exfoliators like fruit enzymes or glycolic acid leave her looking as if she had sandpapered her face.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2016
This play was written before the author's sojourn in prison, but there he had sandpapered its passages, and hand-polished the epigrams.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard