sandblasted
Example Sentences
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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
Bright and bloody, sandblasted and sunworn, it has the visual crispness of the first and doesn’t bear the strange desaturated look of some of the director’s recent work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
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
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