How to Use sandblast in a Sentence

sandblast

verb

• Strong winds tore through the area, whipping snow through the air with such force that Verbeek felt like he was being sandblasted.
  — Vicky Ho, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 July 2017
• By Lap 40, the front of cars looked like they’d been sandblasted, and pit crews had to be mindful not to slip on debris that shook out of grills during stops.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2023
• You're being sandblasted by a storm of burning embers and smoke.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2016
• The Minnesota slide was sandblasted and painted in April.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2019
• Instead, the Pailies sandblasted, falsely restamped and reshipped the metal.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Furniture and lampshades are fashioned from driftwood, and the floors of sandblasted pine.
  — Ashlea Halpern, CNT, 7 Aug. 2017
• For decades, the well sat filled with stagnant water, until the Singhs, with help from Jodhpur’s maharajah, purified the pool and sandblasted the steps.
  — Gisela Williams, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2017
• The dial is a 0.75mm slice of natural turquoise that has been ground, sandblasted and polished, and because turquoise has a slight matrix, no two slices will ever look the same.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
• Last year, Al Jazeera found that some Chinese factories were sandblasting clothes.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• Over the course of about a year, Chen tested different ways of whittling down the metal by effectively sandblasting it with atoms.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• That said, the granite itself is solid, so sandblasting the sculpture wouldn’t affect the structural integrity of the mountain.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
• Prior to finding its way to Brunswick, it had been sandblasted and electrified in Cincinnati.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2019
• The shell is also inspected for cracks, sandblasted, cleaned and repainted.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The closure will allow contractors to sandblast and paint as part of the bridge and roadway rehabilitation project in the area, according to a city news release.
  — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2020
• Fargeat shoots her early scenes from a distinctly male-gaze point of view, lingering on Lutz’s body in honeyed light (the film’s palette is lovely, all sandblasted pastels and ocher-blue sky).
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 11 May 2018
• At Davis Square Station in Somerville, 11 poems were sandblasted into bricks, including nine on the railway platform.
  — Cindy Cantrell, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Momentum used recycled glass as an abrasive material to sandblast the dumpster for the art project.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• The dial here has been completely sandblasted, giving the watch a unique retro-futuristic look right out of the 1927 sci-fi drama Metropolis.
  — Stephen Watson, Esquire, 6 Apr. 2017
• And a plant in Florida was cited for polluting the air through its sandblasting operation.
  — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
• Master Bath One wall of the master bathroom, above and opposite bottom right, is sandblasted glass (side wall) and another is covered in 2-by-2-inch glass tiles (rear wall) and another.
  — Carolyn Weber, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
• James Hoyne does a variety of jobs at the family business, including sandblasting rust off pieces of metal and paperwork.
  — Joseph A. O'Brien Jr., courant.com, 15 June 2017
• That includes sandblasting the walls and adding new tables, refrigerators and a sushi case, as well as a second bar at next-door Uncle Pinkie’s that will function as a separate dining area.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• Sandblasting the Confederacy Today, with 4 million visitors coming to the park each year, the mountain has changed little but the message has shifted.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2017
• In five minutes, the app had sandblasted my cognitive matter with twenty TikToks that had the legibility and logic of a narcoleptic dream.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• The land also had been a dumping ground for materials containing asbestos, pesticides, sandblasting grit, medical waste and tear gas agents.
  — Kimberly Veklerov, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• Old bridge paint contains lead, which can become airborne when sandblasted off for repainting, potentially leading to harmful health effects.
  — Gordon R. Friedman, OregonLive.com, 6 July 2017
• The result is a gritty, glass-like material — containing trace levels of beryllium — that is sold by companies to sandblast ships, storage tanks and other structures before painting.
  — Barry Meier, New York Times, 23 June 2017
• All that protective padded foam, luxuriously smooth and oversized webbing and sandblasted aluminum hardware—especially the multiple latches for the quiet, one-handed MagLatch closure system—also adds a lot of weight.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2017
• But they’re showstoppers, sandblasted with loving inscriptions and positive intentions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
• Next the concrete cabinet is sandblasted to remove surface irregularities.
  — Rene Chun, WIRED, 12 July 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024