sandblast
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
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Present
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sandblastsimple
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sandblastssimple
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have sandblastedperfect
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has sandblastedperfect
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am sandblastingprogressive
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are sandblastingprogressive
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is sandblastingprogressive
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have been sandblastingperfect progressive
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has been sandblastingperfect progressive
Past
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sandblastedsimple
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had sandblastedperfect
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was sandblastingprogressive
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were sandblastingprogressive
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had been sandblastingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of sandblast
Example Sentences
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The incident is being treated as a felony vandalism case, since city crews will likely need to sandblast a limestone surface where some of the graffiti was scrawled, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2023
With his throat clenched tighter than his fists, this District rapper rhymes in growls and sneers, as if trying to sandblast his gritty, ’90s-style backing beats into an even finer dust.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2020
In the name of inspiring little girls living in a male-dominated world, the book doesn’t so much airbrush Chanel’s story as sandblast it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2020
And on Friday, he told Lauer: “The Department of Energy has done tests. They’ve had people sandblast, paint over, concrete, do everything to any kind of nuclear material. You can’t get rid of it.”
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2015
“Well, Dan,” Joe said, “the falcons are gone. We’ll sandblast the aerie. Nothing to stop us from painting now.”
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
He sandblasts names, dates and epitaphs into the granite, and recently inscribed one for a woman about an elevator ride to the top.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2016
The circuits are tested automatically, and their resistance units are trimmed precisely by sandblasts spurting through nozzles as small as hypodermic needles.
From Time Magazine Archive
His voice always was a power tool with endless precision settings, and on "Better" he opens by speak-singing in a tender falsetto before the guitars kick in and he sandblasts away at the melody.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just then, a gust of wind sandblasts the side of the shuttle with tiny rocks.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Playing grief like the sandblasted absence of emotion, Alcock’s Supergirl isn’t in the mood for Metropolis do-gooding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Its character is somber and brooding, partly because of its materials—precast concrete, finely sandblasted to suggest dark gray stone—and partly because of the deep shadows they cast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Reports of nearby homes and businesses being sandblasted by debris are one thing Metzger finds especially surprising.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023
After apprenticing with a stonemason, she sandblasted or laser-cut the sentences into blocks of Mediterranean marble, whose swirling patterns resemble a tempestuous sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
It can put up with storms to a certain extent, but it can't just get sandblasted forever.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
He considers his internship a success, despite his "extremely dirty" task of sandblasting rust off ships, a job he says few Japanese on site were saddled with.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
It wasn’t seen as sandblasting out words carved into stone.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
But the threat never disappeared, afflicting workers who were sandblasting denim and tombstones and toiling in mines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Once through the machine, one of the final products is a gritty powder, mostly glass, that can be sold for use as a sandblasting material.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
It is now softened and blurred by thousands of years of Egyptian desert sandblasting and by occasional rains.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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