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• s  having the abrasive texture of sandpaper

• Vance, who trains for triathlons, grabbed the shark by its sandpapery tail and tried to pull, but it would not budge.
• Their gray and white polyurethane skin, sprayed with a fine-grained silica, is authentically sandpapery enough to be the envy of all the lady sharks at sea.
• Her style is sandpapery, her ambition transparent.