How To Use Close-grained In A Sentence
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The ebony diapason was marked at the fifth, seventh, and twelfth frets with a pattern of ivory dots, and the rounded belly of it was composed of tapering strips of close-grained maple, separated skilfully by thin fillets of rosewood.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Vital cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties… Surplus wealth, productivity, the close-grained juxtaposition of talents that permit society to support technological advances…are themselves products of our organization into cities, and especially dense cities…dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else.
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Being close-grained, ivory lends itself particularly well to low relief and engraving, but it has also been used successfully for statuettes in the round, whose compositions are often dictated by the curve of the tusk itself.
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The pump casing, impeller, motor housing and stationary base elbow shall be manufactured of close-grained cast iron, ASTM A48, Class 30.
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Carya illinoensis has close-grained, hard wood that is pale reddish-brown with occasional dark streaks.
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Both cabinets are made of sycamore entirely ebonized, and the panels are painted with washes of brown and amber, so that the golden color of the close-grained wood shows through.
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The same period also saw the creation of dance studies — composed of light, line and movement — of the major exponents of Expressionist dance (Gret Palucca [1902 – 1993] and Mary Wigman [1886 – 1973]); the Constructivist-inspired role portraits of the Moscow Chamber Theater (1925) and the Habimah Ensemble (1927); and their close-grained, New Expressionist stage reportage of important productions and significant open-air theater performances (Heidelberg Castle Theater Festival, Frankfurt-Römerberg Theater Festival).
Nini Hess.
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Perched on iron wheels, it is lined with close-grained pine boards stained a deep honey-amber by years of woodsmoke seeping from the stove.
Wildwood
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The best wooden boards are thick, heavy, and stable and made from close-grained hardwoods like maple - but they're also rather expensive.
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The close-grained wood resembles sugar maple but has a softer texture, is not as heavy, and has somewhat poorer machining qualities.
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Both cabinets are made of sycamore entirely ebonized, and the panels are painted with washes of brown and amber, so that the golden color of the close-grained wood shows through.
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Advantages: it can destroy the ingot casting, steel grain refinement, and eliminating the defect in microstructure, thus making steel tissue close-grained, with improved mechanical properties.
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The base of these hills was of close-grained white-coloured granite, or whinstone: the summits of good freestone: on the sides several good pieces of iron ore were picked up.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
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The shape is usually spheroidal, and the material hypersthene (a hard and close-grained bluish granite) or diorite, greenstone-trap blackened by sun and rain.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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close-grained birch
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That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Bonding strength high ensure heavy bamboo slats inside and outside close-grained, surface of bright color, pure and fresh and elegant, bamboo grain clarity, elastic, high hardness and stable quality.
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The wood of this cartouche is the same as that of the basilisks upon the arms, being very hard and close-grained, and of a tawny, yellow hue, like boxwood.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Beech and particularly the close-grained sycamore seem to have been the most usual choices for painted boxes and other small objects.
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The wood of them, which is white, close-grained, tough, and light, is well adapted to that purpose.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
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Practically all supermarket pears are pale travesties of the real thing, which have a combination of slippery, honeyed sweetness and a tight, close-grained texture of the flesh.
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Ruses served my turn to draw the time out-first a close-grained web
"You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us."
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I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.]
Old Calabria
