Example Sentences

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“I just fell in love with the textures,” he said, according to the New York Times, “the slight graininess of it.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2023

Caster sugar brings plenty of sweetness without any of the textural graininess that coarser types of sugars often contribute.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022

In some cases, the material’s archival graininess makes its limited availability feel esthetically apropos.

From New York Times • May 28, 2020

There’s none of the dryness or graininess that plagues tamales of lesser quality.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2019

Have you ever sat close to the screen in a motion picture theatre, so that the graininess of the moving film was visible?

From The Infra-Medians by Wright, Sewell Peaslee