Example Sentences

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Her skin had coarsened a bit over the years, he thought.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

Her skin had coarsened, tanned from all the time they were spending in the yard sitting beneath the brazen sun.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

The man had coarsened, in manner as much as appearance.

From The Bigamist by Young, F.E. Mills

His features had coarsened somewhat; his figure taken on flesh, but it was the same Will ... the same handsome lover of my youth.

From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

The photograph showed him features which the hand of Time had coarsened.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund