Example Sentences
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That appeal could strengthen if Texas embeds tax restrictions in its constitution and guarantees that corporate investments won’t be sanded down by policy changes years later.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
Who they are is sanded down, flattened, and made into a caricature.
From Slate • Aug. 15, 2025
Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.
From BBC • May 2, 2025
And I don’t think I truly understood how much they got sanded down in my own life until I worked on this show.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024
Here was an oaken sill, cut long ago and sanded clean and bedded true.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
