[
UK
/sˈændpeɪpɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsændˌpeɪpɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsændˌpeɪpɝ/ ]
NOUN
- stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand
VERB
-
rub with sandpaper
sandpaper the wooden surface
How To Use sandpaper In A Sentence
- Rub the surface with sandpaper before painting.
- Now, whenever I go out on the porch I remember how rusty and pitted the railings used to look and how it bothered me, and the several hours I spent sandpapering it smooth, then the three coats of brown Rustoleum I applied, and now I'm watching it get whiter and cleaner with every new layer of paint I apply. A Productive Day
- My voice is like sandpaper, I cough up gobs of phlegm, my liver feels like a sandbag.
- He is using your partner as divine sandpaper to take off the rough edges.
- Wiping up sawdust, on the shop workbench, from drilling or sandpapering is easy.
- Corion can be sanded lightly using number 800 sandpaper.
- Worse, when her 'virtuosi' attempted the same, their intonation rubbed like sandpaper on a blister. Times, Sunday Times
- In a lot of companies that haven't done well, there is a fear psychosis that has to be dealt with, sandpapered out of the system. To Indian Bank's 'Turnaround Man,'
- The pine is a tender wood able to be cut and sandpapered very easily.
- Take the burrs off the cuts with a pocket knife or sandpaper or fingernail file.