How to Use granular in a Sentence

granular

adjective

• In a sport where teams chase the smallest and most granular edges, the sheer luck of a coin provides a colossal one.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Apple bought the brilliant Dark Sky app a while back and some of the granular detail that that has is now on the Weather app.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• Fall is also a great time of the year to feed trees and shrubs with granular fertilizer.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2022
• Stirring too soon can create a granular ganache, not one that’s satiny, glossy, and smooth.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
• Some of Hendler-Grunt’s best practices are more granular.
  — Fortune, 1 June 2022
• At the same time, these functional managers struggle to stay up to speed and get a granular view of work progress.
  — Suresh Sambandam, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• But there has been less research on these trends at a more granular level.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
• But the more granular things get — say a city sampling every block — then there’s more cause for concern.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
• The more granular the data, the better your analysis will be.
  — Nacho De Marco, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• And don’t get so granular as to find out what happens to each character.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 3 July 2024
• 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
• Remember to not go too granular about the tech specs and instead tell a story.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Then use heat map software like CrazyEgg or HotJar to get more granular.
  — David Gaz, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• 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
• At the more granular end of the reporting spectrum, however, is the EEO-1s.
  — Ashley Marchand Orme, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2022
• Were the somewhat granular textures a design choice to evoke the original?
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
• Your book is filled with lots of granular information on how to assess your own health and make changes.
  — Will Stone, NPR, 14 June 2024
• The site does not yet filter for discrete skills, but that might just be too granular for its business model.
  — Nicholas Wyman, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• 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
• Although products may be available in dust, granular form or sprays, choose a spray.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Ledecky and co-owner Scott Malkin asked Trotz and players for input on the schematics, with questions as granular as where to put the dentist chair.
  — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 14 June 2021
• The Ciré date is known to have a unique, granular and almost chewy texture, with a distinct amber and pillowy golden skin.
  — Christian Reynoso, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• These systems offer more granular updates to the voter via text, email or calls throughout the ballot's journey.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
• Analysts standing in front of a big electronic board counting votes and breaking them down state by state, county by county, in granular detail have now become an election night staple.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024