Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency.
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Examples for "gritty "
Examples for "gritty "
1 The above kinds enjoy a gritty vegetable soil; perfect drainage is indispensable.
2 Root was far from his best but gutsed out a gritty innings.
3 The nitty - gritty of the American dream doesn't come much grittier than this.
4 This was exactly the kind of gritty response he had hoped for.
5 The historically accurate film Dunkirk is being praised for its gritty reality.
1 This week brought yet another documentary with near wall-to-wall grainy old footage.
2 A grainy , gray picture of a dismal room appears on the screen.
3 It tasted slightly grainy , imbued with the sunlight of a summer morning.
4 There's even a windshield cam to record grainy images during the descent.
5 One screen, larger than the rest, showed a moving grainy gray image.
1 The data needs to be sufficiently granular so as to be useful.
2 Similar to Cheddar, but more granular , softer in texture and marketed younger.
3 Recurrent granular deposits developed in the corneal graft 14 months after surgery.
4 Involucrin was used as a differentiation marker for spinous and granular cells.
5 The formation of the granular sphere was hastened by any accidental injury.
1 It contained partly-digested food, apparently consisting of cheese, potatoes and farinaceous powder.
2 The farinaceous matter afforded by each plant is very considerable, 500 lbs.
3 The lungs are satisfied with a provision of vegetable and farinaceous food.
4 The result is, they know but little of farinaceous or vegetable food.
5 Fresh mutton or beef, a variety of vegetables, and a farinaceous pudding.
1 Large crystals and a subsequent demand for tape characterize the coarse - grained granite.
2 A microgel particle consists of coarse - grained linear polymers, which are tetra-functionally crosslinked.
3 These particles are an ideal test system for the extension of coarse - grained models.
4 His holo, rather, a genial if somewhat coarse - grained ghost afloat in golden light.
5 A coarse - grained model for molecular dynamics simulations is extended from lipids to proteins.
1 The soluble filtrate from starch paste also contains a substance identical with granulose .
1 Hajj is not a mealy - mouthed liberal suck-up to Islamic countries or institutions.
2 Nearly everyone involved in the shenaniagns had some mealy - mouthed excuses to offer.
3 When we need protest and backbone, we get mealy - mouthed responses and jellyfish.
4 It is dry and mealy , of the taste of chestnuts and cheese.
5 On boiling the fruit it became nearly as mealy as a potato.
6 Madam, - Your Editorial on Charlie McCreevy was mealy mouthed and small-minded.
7 The flowers are borne on stems which are very mealy , and 6in.
8 Prepare a certain quantity of boiled potatoes, the mealy kind being preferred.
9 And I learned then that mealy noses are by no means rare.
10 It is a mealy , porous, warm sand, well drained and easily cultivated.
11 For this purpose use potatoes that are very white, mealy , and smooth.
12 The bills are crisp and mealy , like they're fresh from an ATM.
13 So he will come down at last in his old-fashioned, mealy coat.
14 He had black hair, olive skin, sharp features, and a mealy mouth.
15 No more mealy - mouthed acceptance of the convoluted, archaic and unnecessarily one-sided funding situation.
16 But the visual image in the masterly original Greek is not so mealy - mouthed .
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