fine-grain

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Examples

• As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

• Hey, whatever keeps those lecherous freaks from sexually assaulting humans is fine by us.

• There are instances in which private rehoming works out fine and is the best solution for the struggling family and the children.

• That's fine—excellent TV shows are snubbed all the time by these awards organizations.

• The exhibit also includes examples of designers borrowing from fine art, as Yves Saint Laurent did with his Mondrian dress.

• And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.

• A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

• A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.

• Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.

• Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.