How to Use grainy in a Sentence

grainy

adjective

• The mustard has a grainy texture.
• Low light video is bright, but the picture is a bit grainy.
  — Adam Doud, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2019
• This is all just speculation supported by some grainy videos and sneaky pics.
  — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 29 July 2019
• The footage is grainy, but shows the athletes exchanging punches before the fight went to the floor.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2019
• And the video, of course—maybe the first viral video (outside the grainy Zapruder film).
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2019
• My teeth were completely black and the paste itself had a coarse, grainy texture that I wasn't used to in toothpaste whatsoever.
  — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2019
• In grainy surveillance footage of the scene, McGlockton leaves the store, then approaches Drejka and shoves him to the ground.
  — Adeel Hassan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• At another quiet lunchtime, a colleague brought her Armenian friend, who, for fun, read her fortune in the coffee’s grainy slurry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• Also playing were grainy images of old Chernivtsi, projected on a wall, a poignant reminder of a people who so enlivened and enriched the city but are no more.
  — Frances D’emilio, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Add the chickpeas to the processor and pulse until everything is well incorporated but the mixture is still coarse and grainy, stopping to scrape down the bowl as needed.
  — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2019
• After suffering flu-like symptoms, the victims of the 1647 outbreak began to vomit a black, grainy discharge.
  — Steven M. Opal, Time, 11 Oct. 2019
• But some fans thought this was more than friendly, after extremely grainy photos showed Swift and Kloss’s faces close together, possibly making out.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
• The footage showed both the officer and suspect with their hands at their sides, but the images were too grainy to tell if either held a gun, COPA said.
  — Jeremy Gorner, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• Hestrin played grainy, low-quality surveillance video of the incident during a Wednesday press conference.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2019
• On the right side of the screen: grainy footage of Ye in the back of a vehicle.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• Still, the world had many of the same questions about that grainy clip.
  — Tim McMillan, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2020
• And then there’s a grainy black-and-white film of two nude Black men wrestling.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
• 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 film is grainy; there’s a bright light beaming from the streetlamp.
  — Melissa Chadburn, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2020
• The grainy footage complements the reflective tone of the track.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2021
• Florence likes to add a swirl of grainy mustard at the end.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The texture is still grainy, just a little more plump and dense.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2021
• As is evident from the grainy image, the year... was 1973.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 25 June 2021
• All the while, the grainy soundtrack of the soulful Korean chanteuse fills the night air.
  — Anne Anlin Cheng, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 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
• Barrett, and Macauley’s previous attorneys, argue the footage is too grainy to make out the identities of anyone shown.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024