With time, as the grain openings widen, the edges smooth, and the grains become rounded.

Muted, perhaps, the edges smoothed away by his fascination with Tomboy, but the echoes of their long relationship still sang in his body.

The edges of the glass were already smoothing as the House healed itself.

The edges smoothed and the geometries became fluctuating blobs.

Almost four years had passed, and there was a limit to how long any memory, however traumatic, could last before familiarity wore its jagged edges smooth.

The table did look used, with some edges smoothed and some scratches marring its surface.

His voice was gentle now, and the edge of temper had smoothed out of it.

"That was true in the past, but my edges have smoothed somewhat."

When the edges of joints become crumbly after hardening for about an hour, trim and smooth them with a mason's jointing tool.

Jeremy straightened his tie, smoothed the edges of his jacket.