Noun : At this stage of his career the sands are running out.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to sand the ends of a board. ,to sand an icy road. ,The mischievous child sanded the sugar.    From Dictionary.com. 

It's an intriguing puzzle box of a novel with a few edges left unsanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Used World by Haven Kimmel: Book summary] Reference

Thank you, sir she curtsied, then swept away on his arm across the unsanded boards.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

The unsanded grout should be fine on smaller pieces of work and is easier to apply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figurine Flux | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

She thought of the furniture at home, crude, unsanded and unstained pieces her father had made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wayward Muse] Reference

Wallpaper was steamed off and never replaced, carpet pulled up but the battered oak floors remained unsanded and unsealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting Season]

Buy a quart of flat black paint or any other color that you like and add 2 tablespoons of unsanded tile grout per cup of paint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turn Cheap Furniture Into A Chalkboard Table | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

A moment later the car was doing the same, and he found himself moving laterally in a beautiful skid across an unsanded slick patch on the highway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]

Valdir froze, his hands pressed against the unsanded wood behind him, and the minstrel reached for his face, grabbing his chin in a hand rough with chording-calluses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Promise]

Liesl Schillinger on another collection of short stories, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell: Boswell inlays smooth, polished judgments into unsanded models of working-class and middle-class lives, setting off aspects of the characters' makeup that they could not or would not reveal themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers] Reference

On July first, Alan celebrated Canada Day by crawling out of the attic window onto the roof and watching the fireworks and listening to the collective sighs of the people densely packed around him in the Market, then he went back into the house and walked from room to room, looking for something out of place, some spot still rough and unsanded, and found none.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

Some of it as sort of an 'unsanded primer' texture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transformers News] Reference

Penciled outlines are obvious along its curlicues of jigsawed ornamentation, and the unsanded surfaces reveal plywood grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pitch | Complete Issue] Reference

The wine bar was left rustic and unsanded to illustrate the countryside estate side of Newton, also known for natural unfiltered wines.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

A world's wonder: that not only had the army of stunted black pyramids visible from the train, yielded up treasures, but three tiers of palaces were being unearthed, or rather, unsanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Happened in Egypt] Reference

To some unsanded shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Path Flower and Other Verses] Reference

You can use ’sanded’ grout or ‘unsanded’ grout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figurine Flux | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference