Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandblasts
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Her daughter Frances Bean eventually files for emancipation.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2026 -
Atmos annually files a request to redo its rates, and has previously cited infrastructure improvements as a reason for increasing costs.—
Devyani Chhetri,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Jan. 2026
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With a palette knife, Callie Siskel scrapes at the raw face of elegy, revealing interior forms on a canvas where the poet’s father lives beyond death.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
26 Nov. 2025
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But the legendary key party scene only scrapes the surface, and the film's blue-gray moodiness is downright enveloping, not to mention its brutally honest depiction of family ties.—
Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Nov. 2025
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After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
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The front office scours every available market.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Parker Lee was a new addition in season 3 as Mac's roomie — and an eventual victim of the campus rapist who attacks female students and shaves their heads.—
Sezin Koehler,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Jan. 2026
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Hockey players cut more, so Emmet shaves deeper.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside,
22 Dec. 2025
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The pop star sits on a kitchen floor, sporting a white turtleneck minidress that barely grazes her upper thigh.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
14 Jan. 2026
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After someone in the other party fires a potshot that grazes the head of one of Rex’s fiends, another buddy returns fire and kills the original shooter.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
26 Nov. 2025
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The end of his tenure with the Cubs gnaws it him.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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And though Billy Bob Thornton and Ali Larter's dysfunctional love story still grates, corporate drama and spikes of heart drive the Paramount+ series.—
EW Staff November 14,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Nov. 2025
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Nothing grates quite like those slick pharmaceutical ads blaring across the TV, promising quick fixes while soft-pedaling potential side effects.—
Alex Ward,
Boston Herald,
15 Aug. 2025
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Each time clothes rub against each other in the washer, the friction abrades the fibers slightly causing the surface to look dull.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Sandblasts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandblasts. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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