A day's stubble gave a sandpapery edge to the motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

The Teotl wrapped two sandpapery thumbs around Oaxyctl's neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

The spongy metal tires made a sandpapery sound on the icy road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forever Free]

The prose is sandpapery, the sentence rhythms often rough and jabbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned] Reference

I murmured, scratching the vast, sandpapery back as it passed beneath me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

The first two days his face got sandpapery the way it always did on weekends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

She put the bowl aside and held his hand until he fell into a sandpapery sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Demon Queen] Reference

Very English, too, in his sense of humor — a large part of his sandpapery charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)] Reference

I've never understood how a dragon's tongue can be slimy and sandpapery at the same time, but it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Myth Marker]

I smacked my lips, cringing at the dry, sandpapery sensation of my tongue scraping the roof of my mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [And One Last Thing…] Reference

But Boycott was the star: sandpapery and cussed and not yet mad enough that he has stopped making sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cricket fails the cool test even with disco umpires and crick-babes] Reference

Ydwyr rubbed palm across chin, a sandpapery sound -- under the storm-noise -- despite his lack of beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Circus of Hells]

She took my hand and rubbed it across her sandpapery scalp, whispering about friends and eneinies in China.    From Wordnik.com.  [the secret sense]

As my face pulls away, the entire towel is soaked in blood, because that is how hard and stiff and sandpapery it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations with Mother, Part 2,355: "Where the Hell Did You Get These Towels?"] Reference

Burnsy, Serious Kitten wanted me to tell you to be careful if you adopt Concerned Cat, as his tongue is extra sandpapery.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMMENTS OF THE WEEK] Reference

She laid her hand against EXCLUSIVE 91 his hard cheek and was delighted by the sandpapery texture of it against her palm.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air] Reference

Matt nuzzled his face into her hair, the raw silk sheets clean and sweet against the sandpapery texture of his unshaven cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart Of The Tiger]

Burnsy, Serious Kitten wanted me to tell you to be careful if you adopt Concerned Disapproval Cat, as his tongue is extra sandpapery.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMMENTS OF THE WEEK] Reference

But his soft, sandpapery voice still commanded the room, and his burning, obsessed eyes galvanized the will of everybody here in turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sinister Six Combo]

In your mouth, the crust initially registers as rough and sandpapery, but it quickly crumbles to reveal the delicate, moist veal inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the Most of Schnitzel in Vienna] Reference

Armey, a Texan, is part sandpapery professor (which he once was) and part buckaroo (hence his fondness for cowboy boots and country music).    From Wordnik.com.  [Turbulence In The House] Reference

Mutt got to him before Kate did, and by the time Kate killed the engine and climbed off, Johnny was prone beneath an onslaught of sandpapery tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grave Denied]

She ran her fingers over his sandpapery jaw, over his full lips, through the soft warmth of his hair, then tipped his head so she could look at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate]

These patches of roughness trap a "boundary layer" of air next to the speeding skater, just as the shark's sandpapery skin traps a boundary layer of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold-Medal Physics] Reference

Her arms were lumpy and sandpapery and bright red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woulda Coulda Shoulda] Reference

"All right, everybody!" she said in her booming, sandpapery voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News]

And she found it - a delightful, sandpapery voice peppered with frequent hoarse bouts of laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [JPost.com - Front Page] Reference

"No, no I'm up now," John Joseph McCauley yawned, his raspy baritone even more sandpapery than usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boise Weekly] Reference

When he was talking to you you must have noticed a sort of rough, sandpapery feeling under that necklace I gave you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triplanetary] Reference

The reaction is very uncomfortable and sometimes the invisible sandpapery blisters can expand into ugly, raw and painful spots on the lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Politics] Reference

Well-meaning kitteh reached down to try to clean the doggie’s private bits and that sandpapery tongue was not welcome!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: Kitteh Still Loves Goggie - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

” Musical elements drop in — flickering keyboards, electric guitar tones that range from liquid to sandpapery — and drop out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destroyer's Topsy-Turvy Idea Redeems Bejar's Theatrics] Reference

Oh, the wild, gorgeousness of Kim Deal’s bass, her sandpapery voice, and her tear-inducing harmonies with her twin sister, Kelley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living With Music: A Playlist by Joanna Smith Rakoff - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

An anxious whining, a sandpapery tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fine and Bitter Snow]

He rubbed his chin, making a sandpapery sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carrie]

"bathroom tissue" (who needs sandpapery toilet paper?) or for Stove Top Stuffing over potatoes, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference