nitty-gritty

You really were ahead of your time with Twin Peaks—this gritty, engrossing serial TV drama.

Its quality is determined by the greater or less proportion of silicious or gritty matter with which its fibres are associated.

Gasping for breath and crunching for foothold the sidewalk people breasted the gritty cold.

Let us sit down here facing it by these broken stones, where we can be a little sheltered from the chilly wind and gritty sand.

Put ammonia or borax in the water used, or else rub the glass with whiting, or a scouring soap which is not gritty.

Over the lamentable procession hung a fog of gritty chalk particles that had been winnowed up by the plodding feet.