close-grained
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of close-grained
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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It is based largely on a close-grained analysis of masses of sea surface and air temperature data collected over the century.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010
The wood they found was dense and close-grained, unlike the spongy grain of the younger, forced-growth trees that are planted today.
From Time Magazine Archive
In twelve books she has tried both to give a close-grained structure of regional manners and to trace the doings of the English merchant class from its ferment under Cromwell to its troubles under Attlee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Upper Silurian limestones already described are succeeded by a most remarkable series of close-grained white sandstones, containing numerous beds of highly bituminous coal, and but few marine fossils.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock
The wood is hard, heavy, strong, close-grained and light brown in color.
From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.
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