sandblast
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
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sandblasts,
present (3rd person singular)
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sandblasted,
past participle, past
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sandblasting
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
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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She went through a Southwest phase, which involved desert colors and asking her dad to sandblast cactuses on her windows — and then an all-black phase that included black window treatments and a black bedspread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
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
“I hate to see that kind of stuff,” said Eddy, who went on to sandblast and repaint his town’s two markers, “Delmont: meaning a valley in the hills” more than a decade ago.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 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
The tall structures that will support wind turbines, called monopiles, are being welded, sandblasted and painted at EEW American Offshore Structures’ facility at the Port of Paulsboro across the Delaware River from Philadelphia International Airport.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Reports of nearby homes and businesses being sandblasted by debris are one thing Metzger finds especially surprising.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023
The shelves along the sandblasted mirror behind the bar were empty.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
“This is sandblasting, damaging; it’s rocks at high velocity, sand grains, high-velocity gravel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
Instead, he likens the process to sandblasting the exterior of St Paul's Cathedral, and seeing it as Sir Christopher Wren would have done in 1697.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2022
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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