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US
/ˈɡɹeɪni/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈeɪni/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈeɪni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
the photographs were grainy and indistinct
it left a mealy residue
granular sugar
How To Use grainy In A Sentence
- Her tragic death, poignantly captured on grainy mobile telephone footage, has flashed around the world. Times, Sunday Times
- In the grainy black and white photo I can still make out the sheen of A.'s hair oil and the way he slicked his dark locks back on the sides.
- For me, his random interviews with various down-and-out characters in Cleveland, on sidewalks and in living rooms, while charmingly syncopated in the Jarmusch family style, with intermittent jazz music and grainy shaky filming, did not result in a clear "what is this about"--although Tom insisted that for him, it was exactly the Cleveland he wished to express, "meant to be an imperfect portrait. Karin Badt: The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival: From Soviet Cannibals to Jarmusch's Cleveland
- Phillips likes to write allusive portraits peppered with images he can wrap his warm, grainy voice around, like the slowly-rolling Far End of the Night or the feistier Calamity Jane.
- Even the vanilla buttercream piped onto an otherwise agreeable vanilla cupcake had a grainy, crystallized texture on one of my visits, as if the ratio of butter to sugar had gone astray.
- The pictures are grainy photocopies of photos included in a confidential French investigation into the Paris car crash.
- It is most beautiful, appearing translucent with a light corn silk color and streaks of black in its grainy looking material.
- Pity I didn't bring a tripod: I've had to hand-hold the camera and use ISO 1600 so the photos are a little grainy.
- Just don't complain if the soup has a weathered, grainy texture. Times, Sunday Times
- Why does flour, grainy and powdery, on human flesh, so appall ? I'LL TAKE YOU THERE