He played rugby in the most exuberant and abrasive manner yet was a mass of nerves before the big games.

She plays the titular lead, a flinty teacher with a wicked wit and abrasive manner that masks a warm heart.

Some have rushed to suggest he was more popular than his abrasive manner and suspected treachery might suggest.

Could it be that her abrasive manner has left a mark in high places?

His cold, abrasive manner offends many of the villagers.

The most common exfoliators are scrubs - little abrasive particles suspended in gloop.

Abrasive particles in the fluid contact raised features on the surface of the workpiece and remove them.

The dust was found to include small abrasive particles.

Doing so breaks the bond between the abrasive particles on the surface of the wheel, exposing a new surface as particles fall away.

The displaced material forms ridges adjacent to grooves, which may be removed by subsequent passage of abrasive particles.

And the more he exercised his forceful and abrasive personality, the more he fell out with people, in business and socially.

His intention was most certainly to rally support and imprint his abrasive personality on his own staff.

His cold, abrasive personality alienated his subordinates; one observer described him as a cold, calculating owl.

Both major challengers argued that the mayors abrasive personality hampered his leadership of the city.

But his abrasive personality and rudeness have led to the resignation of his 75th assistant.

They could finally square his persona with his abrasive style in the saddle.

He pulls this off, with a less abrasive style of humour and without descending into sentimentality.

Despite her crude, abrasive style, she was self-deprecating.

Fourteen years ago, the oil company was in a different management crisis, groaning under excessive debt and its staff in near-open rebellion over redundancies and an abrasive style of management.

His abrasive style occasionally brought him into conflict with producers and stars, possibly precipitating his retirement from film work in 1991.

The abrasive surface yielded some reverse swing but only slowly.

If the dark arts of 'preparing' the ball for reverse swing are widely practised and any abrasive surface will do, they remain well beyond the official pale.

A person's own skin (or the skin of another person) may be sufficient to act as an abrasive surface to cause friction burn.

A burr grinder, which crushes the beans between two abrasive surfaces, provides a better result.

Related tools have been developed with abrasive surfaces, such as diamond abrasives or silicon carbide.