sand down

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w>sand down

vt sep(ab)schmirgeln
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to the waves sucking sand down to grit, past tourists
Process: "It's similar to when I make a piece of furniture in that we blindly pack sand down into a mold to create a gradient.
I would suggest that you sand down the table and re-varnish it, and get a fitted glass top which would protect the wood from spills, stains and sticky hands.
But the good news is that there are excellent products to sand down the gnarly skin that is the bane of a successful self-bronze.
They just put sand down and smoothed it out with their feet.
Hours long frequent traffic jams occur, creating long queues of vehicles stuck in the sand down the damaged bridge at the middle of link road.
The large-scale tumbling of sand down a dune creates primary waves, or P waves, the pulses that travel fastest during an earthquake.
A city plow contractor was brought in to lay sand down as police investigated the accident.
Back in the lab, Favors milled the sand down to the nanometer scale and followed with a series of purification steps changing its color from brown to bright white, similar in color and texture to powdered sugar.
Ahn was playing her third shot from a greenside bunker when television crews reported that she had used her feet to move sand down the side of the bunker, eectively 'building a stance' in violation of rule 13-3.
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