Sanded
['sændɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Sand
(a.) Covered or sprinkled with sand; sandy; barren.
(a.) Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound.
(a.) Short-sighted.
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Examples
- As you hope ever to be forgiven, Mr. Rivers, the high crime and misdemeanour of spoiling a sanded kitchen, tell me what I wish to know. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words In secret. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was chiefly a noise of feet, briskly crunching hither and thither over the sanded floor within. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He used folded sanded paper--it may have been a tube--and through this he drew a stick coated with chlorate of potash and phosphorus. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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