Example Sentences

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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

Repurposing these means finding new uses for them, such as selling glass to companies that do sandblasting.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023

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