sandblasting
- present participle of sandblast.
Example Sentences
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For a decade, Vietnamese worker Minh did tough jobs like sandblasting ships and welding steel, helping address rapidly ageing Japan's dire labour needs.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
It wasn’t seen as sandblasting out words carved into stone.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
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
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
