roughen
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Red whirls on this rabbit’s tongue are filiform papillae, which roughen the tongue and help move food around the mouth.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
The general idea is that ground surfaces roughen after the mass movement of rocks and soil, so that landslide deposits are the roughest right after the landslide occurs and become smoother over time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023
The narrative swerves enough to thrillingly roughen the course of love, and the characters are so memorable that readers will yearn for a third book.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2015
“If you’re going out, I would apply Conformist Hair Paste to roughen up the texture,” he says.
From Forbes ● Jun. 10, 2014
She was tall and slight, and lithe and graceful in her movements, with pansy-brown eyes and a smooth, olive skin that neither sun nor wind could roughen.
From The Second Chance by Nellie L. McClung
Wells has a deep, oaky baritone that roughens to a grumble in its lower register.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
"It roughens the hands, and when a girl has hands like yours——" "I know, mama."
From Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
"We put in the clear glass, and the wind blows the sand against it and roughens the outer surface like ground glass."
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
He undulates the surface, he raises it in hills, scoops it into vallies, and roughens it with rocks.
As a general rule, pain, especially if it be mental, hardens and roughens the character.
From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant
Auto-tune aside, fans will notice that Thorn's voice has deepened and roughened.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2023
To achieve the shells’ luminous surfaces, Utzon covered them with more than a million handcrafted ceramic tiles, their surfaces roughened by trace amounts of crushed stone, a technique inspired by Japanese pottery.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
It was more like a shift in temperature or light, a texture inside of me that roughened.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2021
He sang his conversational lyrics in a voice roughened by a hard-luck life, particularly after throat cancer left him with a disfigured jaw.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
The edges of the pages were slightly roughened, and the paper was still so pale that every letter stood out clear and black.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Though it may seem counterintuitive, roughening a ball’s surface delays the separation of the boundary layer and keeps a ball in turbulent flow longer.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022
“When I close my eyes, I can still feel that moment,” said the other daughter, Samia, her voice roughening as her eyes filled with tears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
Instead he interprets traditional Yolngu chants, raising and roughening his gentle voice while a Western orchestra plays churning, minimalist accompaniments around him.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2018
Wilmington’s Council had been closing shortfalls of 5 percent to 10 percent for several years, and the compounding effect was roughening the edges of a city that aggressively marketed its coastal quality of life.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2011
My throat began to ache and my voice dropped, roughening into a deep crackle, as if my vocal cords had turned to sandpaper.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
