How to Use the nitty-gritty in a Sentence

the nitty-gritty

noun
  • With this tool, golfers can get down to the nitty-gritty of basic mechanics to improve their game.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Many use the extra time during the four-day weekend, having Monday off, to get down to the nitty-gritty of doing their taxes.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Here is the nitty-gritty breakdown on those income thresholds.
    Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This was a conscious decision made by Lowry, who has shared the nitty-gritty details about her life for years on 16 and Pregnant and later Teen Mom.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • His struggle to get out of his head and delve into the nitty-gritty of the art form reflects a frantic desire for inspiration.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But the problem has been that the nature of elections, and the nitty-gritty of it, gives the white Christian nationalist base in those states still enough power to hold control of the region.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • The site reemerged as a permanent outlet in May 2022, at a time when few newsrooms devote major resources to the nitty-gritty of how elections work.
    Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Advertisement Whatever his opinions are or are not, get to the nitty-gritty of the goals and values for the family.
    Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • There are fishing channels about all species, all tactics, all locations and many that delve way deep into the nitty-gritty of fishing and science and more.
    Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The market may or may not have it right on the nitty-gritty numbers—but the political dividend could be just as important.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The decision of whether to send a child to TK usually comes down to the nitty-gritty specifics of any family’s situation and school options: What are the program’s hours?
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Think of the keynote as the top-level view focused a bit more on the user's perspective, while the state of the union session gets into the nitty-gritty for the people who will make software using the new features.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 6 June 2024
  • Our beauty test team represents different lip care needs and glam preferences so that you’re equipped with the nitty-gritty details that’ll lead you to your next holy grail lip gloss.
    Olivia Cigliano, WWD, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Here's the nitty-gritty on sorting laundry by color, the best water temperature for mixing loads, and more.
    Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2023
  • But shows that crack the D.C. code ground their broader stories in authenticity by fixating on the nitty-gritty.
    Eric Schultz, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2023
  • So far, both candidates have drifted away from the nitty-gritty issues to play trivial pursuit too often.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But, venture capitalists are often quick to add, the show does not reveal the nitty-gritty of the negotiation process.
    Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Offloading all of the nitty-gritty details to someone else is more appealing than ever.
    Scott Bay, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Most people find the nitty-gritty of data policy boring and pay little attention to the risks of surveillance.
    Nicholas Wright, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2018
  • The reviews will tell you the nitty-gritty details that the product description leaves out — like if those socks stay feeling soft AF after multiple washes, or if the backseat in that car feels like a sack of potatoes.
    Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • To get into the nitty-gritty details, both suitcases are almost the exact same weight and size, and both have near-identical capacities.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Maintaining a health file also familiarizes people with the nitty-gritty details of their health.
    Mark Hay, SELF, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Like undertakers and garbage haulers, obstetricians see the nitty-gritty of human existence that can be ghastly and grotesque.
    Sarah Varney, NBC News, 22 July 2023
  • Emulating the terseness of a Jules Dassin heist thriller while largely eschewing the coolness that tends to come with it, Hviid drills into the nitty-gritty details of the robbery until any sense of moral judgment has seeped out of the equation.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Imagine a scenario where your frontline employees, who are most familiar with the nitty-gritty of your business processes, are also the ones driving change.
    Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • For the moment, however, Prasad’s analysis is the best single point of entry for those interested in the nitty-gritty of digital finance.
    Eswar S. Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Janet Planet is her first movie, but her enthusiasm for and knowledge of the nitty-gritty processes of filmmaking are apparent.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
  • For my coverage on pertinent prompting strategies and the nitty-gritty technical underpinnings of these means of getting past the filters of generative AI, see the link here and the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Biden’s speeches seldom get into the nitty-gritty of the content being challenged or how the backlash from conservative activists is putting the profession under duress.
    Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Finally, Quaid suggests keeping a network of other founders and angels with prior startup experience to help with some of the nitty-gritty details.
    Allbusiness, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024

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