roughened

How To Use roughened In A Sentence

• The idea here is to use an adsorbent surface (a roughened metal plate) to concentrate explosive vapours.
• Later, a gray fog stole softly over the roofs, soothing the wind-roughened surfaces, and inwrapping all things in an uncertain light and a measureless peace. Tales of the Argonauts
• Ian blushed and looked awkwardly to his hands, roughened by work.
• As time went on, the surface of the highway roughened.
• His face was roughened by days outdoors in the chill spring, his hair more unruly than ever.
• The flute accentuates the bubbles coming off the bottom because of a “poil mousse,” or a roughened “scratch point,” said Maxmilian Riedel, also on hand for the event. Charles Heidsieck wants to burst your bubble – decanting Champagne | Dr Vino's wine blog
• _Fluthwerk_ and 'hydraulicking' would easily wash down the whole alluvial and auriferous formation to the floor of grey granite which has supplied the huge 'cankey-stones' [Footnote: This proto-historic implement, also called a 'saddle-quern,' is here made out of a thick slab of granite slightly concave and artificially roughened. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
• The laboratory work often takes a week or two so, while the veneer is being made, you may have a slightly roughened, sensitive tooth.
• ‘Hey,’ he said, quietly, and his voice was cracked, warped and roughened by sleep.
• reeding," or roughened edge, is stamped sharply, and we can tell just what the coin is by feeling of it with the finger, even in the dark. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated