Sentence Examples

  • Use a utility knife to trim your work, and employ a rasp to refine the edges.
  • His voice echoed a graveled rasp, "Tell us all you know of Victor."
  • As the teams came to a halt, the rasp of leather against sandy wheels assured her that the other wagons were following suit.
  • In zoology the siren (Siren lacertina), or "mud-eel" of the Americans, one of the perennibranchiate tailed batrachians, is the type of the family Sirenidae, chiefly distinguished from the Proteidae by the structure of the jaws, which, instead of being beset with small teeth, are covered by a horny sheath like a beak; there are, however, rasp-like teeth on the palate, and a few on the inner side of the lower jaw, inserted on the splenial bone.
  • The incisors are small, so as not to interfere with the penetrating action of the tusks; and the crowns of some of the teeth of the cheek-series are modified into scissor-like blades, in order to rasp off the flesh from the bones, or to crack the bones themselves, while the later teeth of this series tend to disappear.
 
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