How to Use grainy in a Sentence

grainy

adjective
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  • The mustard has a grainy texture.
  • On the right side of the screen: grainy footage of Ye in the back of a vehicle.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • At least two or three people are seen in the grainy video milling about the car.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The nose is sweet and grainy, with a hint of hot honey at the tail end of your first whiff.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 June 2021
  • The only video that shows his son at the time of the shooting, Paul said, is grainy.
    — Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • The grainy footage complements the reflective tone of the track.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2021
  • The texture is still grainy, just a little more plump and dense.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 12 Oct. 2021
  • As is evident from the grainy image, the year... was 1973.
    — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2021
  • In the longest of the three videos, the car is seen making its way along the streets of Kabul in grainy black and white footage.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
  • There are audible screams on the grainy cell-phone video.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
  • The movie’s gritty, grainy black-and-white has never looked so good thanks to the 4K restoration.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Miller asked his brother, heard through the grainy audio.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Too grainy to discern the marks or even say for sure the photos were of Jennifer.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The grainy footage was aired on TV stations around the world and used as evidence at the trial.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The grainy cellphone footage went viral, and the outcry began.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2022
  • But the silent footage is grainy and sometimes hard to make out, lawyers acknowledged.
    — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Kalepe sits in front of her phone, her image filtered through the grainy charm of an old smartphone lens.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The video was less than nine minutes long, dark, grainy and badly out of focus.
    — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Police first released a grainy image of a suspect from the video a day after the girls were found in 2017.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And why are said photographs and footage always so grainy?
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • The top dip by my lights is the Mardi Gras Mustard, which boasts the grainy Creole condiment and lends a complex tang to the equation.
    — Washington Post, 28 July 2021
  • The shooting was captured on a grainy police dashcam video.
    — Omar Jimenez, CNN, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Police released grainy surveillance footage of the person seen in the parking lot around the same time as the shooting.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Here was this other Robert Meeks, circa 1964 — long before I was born — surging to life in grainy black and white.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2022
  • Fans have been posting this grainy clip since the Bengals’ playoff run started.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Lindsay was shown the grainy surveillance video of the three suspects and denied knowing them.
    — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The seeds and the juice run together, and even a slightly grainy tomato can be saved like this, its texture redeemed.
    — New York Times, 28 July 2021
  • There was no such tracker, but a couple St. Louis TV stations offered grainy live feeds of the balloon.
    — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • There is no such tracker just yet, but a couple St. Louis TV stations offered grainy live feeds of the balloon.
    — Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The grainy look of the first movie has disappeared, replaced by crisp footage with lifelike clarity.
    — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021

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