How to Use grainy in a Sentence

grainy

adjective

• 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
• 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 images were shaky (or maybe just our TV) and very grainy to watch.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
• Low light video is bright, but the picture is a bit grainy.
  — Adam Doud, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2019
• 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
• And grainy video, mock drafts and draft grades will do nothing to prove him wrong.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2019
• There’s a curved bar here of rift-sawn oak, a technique that leaves the wood more dressy, less grainy.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2018
• 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 images were grainy and at times hard to make out, as if the signal was coming from the moon.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 10 July 2019
• The movie’s gritty, grainy black-and-white has never looked so good thanks to the 4K restoration.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Nov. 2021
• The grainy image shows a man with hands in his pockets walking on the bridge.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2021
• Miller asked his brother, heard through the grainy audio.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], 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
• And the video, of course—maybe the first viral video (outside the grainy Zapruder film).
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2019
• Don’t overbeat as the cream could break down and the texture will become grainy.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2020
• At the start of the grainy video clip, the coyote is clearly waiting for something.
  — Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The cheap cameras produced images that were sometimes grainy and overexposed — imperfections that Ms. van Manen didn’t correct in the dark room.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024