Sentence example with the word 'roughening'

roughening

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Chocolate or dove-colored grounds with delicate diapers in gold and engobe; brown or black faience with white, yellow and pink designs incised or in relief; pottery curiously and deftly marbled by combinations of various colored clays these and many other kinds are to be found, all, however, presenting one common feature, namely, skilful finger-moulding and a slight roughening of the surface as though it had received the impression of coarse linen or crape before baking.   [Please select]

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The others looked, and beheld, half a mile or so away, on the roughening waters, the hull of the hydroplane.   [Please select]

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"Toward dawn the wind sprang up, roughening up the water and making it difficult to keep the boat balanced."   [Please select]

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The boy, with his young voice just roughening toward the bass of manhood, had proved an apt pupil.   [Please select]

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But now there was a sudden roughening of the smooth surface of the water; white caps were lashed up by a squall that broke with no warning at all.   [Please select]

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In advance a corps of pioneers broke with pickaxes the solid and treacherous surface, roughening the road so that the poor brutes might gain foothold.   [Please select]

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