grained

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• Resolution refers to the number of pixels on screen, with higher resolutions being capable of more fine-grained detail and smoothness.

• “Studies show the sediment from the harbor is too fine-grained, and it quickly washes away in the surf and tides,” the Union-Tribune wrote.

• The faster the electrons, the shorter their wavelengths, which made them sensitive to more fine-grained features of the proton, as if they’d cranked up the resolution of a microscope.

• Edith Wharton, of course, writes in such a startlingly sharp and close-grained way about how people live.

• At best, the artist gives us a fine-grained picture of her subjects, a picture that allows us to see them aright.

• Consider, for example, that all of the questions about the economy were very fine-grained.

• Close-grained grey and yellowish-grey granite, with brown mica.

• Fine-grained quartzose sandstone, of a purplish hue, resembling a rock on the banks of the Severn, near Bridgenorth.

• Very compact and fine-grained reddish granular quartz, with a glistening lustre, and flat conchoidal fracture.

• The wood of apple trees is hard, close-grained and often richly colored, and is suitable for turning or cabinet work.

• One of the latter struck my knee with force enough to wound the bone without penetrating the grained-leather boot-leg.