How to Use granular in a Sentence

granular

adjective
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  • Ascertain whether the soil in the hole is quite damp, dry, and crumbly, granular (like beach sand), or fine and smooth (like clay).
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Her plan for this new restaurant is both sweeping and granular, a collage of ideas grandiose and close to the ground.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Fall is also a great time of the year to feed trees and shrubs with granular fertilizer.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Pull the mulch back and sprinkle granular fertilizer onto the soil around the drip lines and hand water it in.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In an exclusive clip of the film below, the pair’s Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight hash out some of the most granular details of the show.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 July 2023
  • The data offers a granular look at the emergency response time from Aug. 30 to Sept. 6.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That is a perfect Matt Yglesias quote: grandiose but granular.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Were the somewhat granular textures a design choice to evoke the original?
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
  • And that view, as set out in a series of nine galleries, is alternately grand and granular.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • Early this year, the four teenagers showed Rauch their techniques, which went beyond cloning to include more granular changes to a card’s data.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • There are tons of templates to choose from, including planners that range from monthly at-a-glance views to granular hour-by-hour days.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Is the problem that this Art World Family was crass enough to spell out the humiliation of the job in granular detail?
    — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • So, who owns your credit score and all the granular, personal data that goes into it?
    — Alexandra Peers, CNN, 14 Aug. 2022
  • In the granular sense, the case at the International Court of Justice is a chance to assess three months of devastation in Gaza.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • That morning, Hyland had sent an email to the staff that included his granular review of the Kickoff-game telecast.
    — Jody Rosen, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • With just 21 games left to play, the granular opportunities are slipping through the hourglass and the Warriors are in danger of running out of time.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Finish granular spring feedings of all fruit trees. 62.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But Newitz is not tendentious so much as concerned with conveying the granular texture of life as it is lived.
    — Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • People in that field get really granular and nerdy about language and metaphor.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • The parental controls allow for granular management of what kinds of content your child can access, and the long battery life is perfect for car trips.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 11 July 2023
  • But bringing mesopelagic species into the lab to study this in more granular detail, the way Cook is doing with menhaden, remains a challenge.
    — WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
  • We are not meant to ponder in too much granular detail the historical challenges of a Black family in late 1940s New York.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • But the Windows 11 Settings app uses a more granular system that sets default apps one file extension at a time.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Before those launchers can be rooted out, there is a crucial need for even more granular intelligence to solve a thorny prob- lem.
    — Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The next frontier in the weather forecast wars is ever-more granular prognostications, down to street-by-street and even minute-by-minute detail.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • All that snow from early this week will continue to overload a base that degraded and became granular during a brief warm, dry spell last month.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • More advanced logging can capture and record granular actions made by a user, like if a certain email was accessed.
    — William Turton, Bloomberg.com, 12 July 2023
  • You’re left wondering about solutions on a granular level and wishing the doc had been more oriented around the big reveal.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • With six weeks left in her campaign to unseat a U.S. senator, Kelly Tshibaka turned to what may be the most granular and time-consuming way to win over voters.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • It is made of Cor-Ten steel, a type of steel alloy which oxidizes naturally over time to yield a rich rust coloring and granular texture.
    — cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022

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