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How to pronounce sandpaper in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms emery paper
Type of abrasive, abrasive material, abradant
Derivation sandpapery
Type Words
Synonyms sand
Type of smoothen, smooth
Has types rough-sand


sandpaper the wooden surface.

Examples of sandpaper

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Dry ash acted as a sandpaper-like abrasive on all exterior parts of an aircraft.
From the stuff.co.nz
She scoured hardware stores for very fine sandpaper to use in place of a buffer.
From the stltoday.com
Use an open-coat sandpaper, which won't clog up as quickly with paint particles.
From the boston.com
Filefish are so named because they have skin a bit like sandpaper or a nail file.
From the bbc.co.uk
The Bruins coach likes his players to be his sandpaper-rough partners in grime.
From the ocregister.com
Martinez used sandpaper to scuff up her hands, a pin to cut her lip, they allege.
From the sacbee.com
Now, sand all surfaces with fine sandpaper to get everything off the soapstone.
From the boston.com
It is as if Springsteen had buffed up a brand-new car with a sandpaper chamois.
From the time.com
When I shake her hand later, her callused palm feels like a sheet of sandpaper.
From the olympics.time.com
More examples
  • Emery paper: stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand
  • Rub with sandpaper; "sandpaper the wooden surface"
  • Sandpaper or glasspaper is a form of paper where an abrasive material has been fixed to its surface.
  • A strong paper coated with sand or other abrasive material for smoothing and polishing; a sheet of such paper; To polish or grind (a surface) with or as if with sandpaper
  • Typically used in workworking, but useful in templates for quilting. A shape can be cut from sandpaper and used to mark fabric.
  • A traditional name for coated abrasives that refers to early forms that used sand glued to paper. Most products now use synthetic minerals of aluminum oxide or silicon carbide applied to fabric backings. More appropriately called coated abrasive.
  • Newspaper designed to be read on the beach
  • Keep a few sheets of 150 grit paper handy to smooth out the wood putty when it dries.
  • This is used for sanding timber to be coated or to sand previously applied coats of paint. The different types are defined by a number which refers to the number of the mesh of the sieve contained in a square inch and through which abrasive grains, identified by such number, have passed. ...