gritty particles

And on the wind were small gritty particles, like sand.

Something showered over him and he spat gritty particles out of his mouth.

The gritty particles, when agitated, should dislodge scum that is hard to reach.

Skin gills had to flush the gritty particles out of their filter membranes.

Her face was pressed into dust, rough, gritty particles, each as big as a moon to her staring eyes.

In the stunned calm that followed, Louis felt gritty particles settled thickly over his neck and shoulders and the backs of his hands.

He walked with his eyes half-closed against the backwash of small gritty particles that blurred his vision of the suddenly brightly sunlit streets.

Frequent vacuuming prolongs the life of your carpet by preventing a buildup of gritty particles that can cut carpet fibers.

That night, the air was choking with sulfur fumes and full of gritty particles, and Patrice warned that the buildup was reaching the critical point.

After the stinging nettle enters its flowering and seed setting stages the leaves develop gritty particles called "cystoliths", which can irritate the urinary tract.

Although immersion alone is often sufficient to lubricate the bearing, additional cooling and also flushing away of any gritty particles that could cause damage may be achieved on large ships by a pumped flow of water to the inboard end of the bearing.

It was based on the recommendations of a Royal Commission, which had reported in 1864, and which had shown the grave excess of mortality and sickness among metalliferous miners, attributed to the inhalation of gritty particles, imperfect ventilation, great changes of temperature, excessive physical exertion, exposure to wet, and other causes.

The ash-fall from a typical Vesuvian eruption rarely causes casualties, but it did cause problems during the most recent eruption in 1944, when Allied airfields in the Naples area were carpeted with ash, making the runways temporarily unusable, and gritty particles found their way into the air intakes of aircraft flying in the area.