Before repainting the cabinet, she wiped it down with liquid sandpaper to ensure proper adhesion.

The sandpaperers spent the morning smoothing the old oak table until it gleamed.

The sandpaperer spent the afternoon smoothing the tabletop until the grain felt silky.

His voice had become sandpapery after hours of cheering at the concert.

The painted fence became sandpaperish after years of weathering, making my hands rough whenever I touched it.

After the cough lasted all week, his throat felt sandpaperlike and painfully raw.