How to Use grainy in a Sentence

grainy

adjective
  • The mustard has a grainy texture.
  • The footage is grainy, and both the men look decades younger.
    — T.m. Brown, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • But a little grainy and crumbly.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And a very alarming grainy black and white video.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Still, the world had many of the same questions about that grainy clip.
    — Tim McMillan, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2020
  • At least two or three people are seen in the grainy video milling about the car.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
  • And grainy video, mock drafts and draft grades will do nothing to prove him wrong.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2019
  • And then there’s a grainy black-and-white film of two nude Black men wrestling.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2021
  • These posts show grainy video footage of vessels being blown up.
    — Anusha Mathur, NPR, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The meringue topping needs to be fluffy, but never grainy.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The texture is still grainy, just a little more plump and dense.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The mixture may look grainy and broken at this point, but don’t fret!
    — Molly Baz, Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Bad lemon curd is pasty, grainy, curdled or tooth-achingly sweet.
    — Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Many who read the headlines or watched grainy and graphic videos felt a chill of grief and fear.
    — Kriti Gupta, Refinery29, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The grainy image shows a man with hands in his pockets walking on the bridge.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Those textures of memory, to me, are warm and grainy.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Don’t overbeat as the cream could break down and the texture will become grainy.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The images were shaky (or maybe just our TV) and very grainy to watch.
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
  • The boy in the grainy video feed sounded desperate.
    — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2026
  • But the silent footage is grainy and sometimes hard to make out, lawyers acknowledged.
    — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Although most of the photos were cropped, grainy and far away, that didn’t matter.
    — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Tasters wanted chickpeas that were tender and creamy, not mushy, grainy, or slimy.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Shooting in the lowest light leads to grainier results, but that's par for the course.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The only video that shows his son at the time of the shooting, Paul said, is grainy.
    — Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • Even creamy soups can be frozen, though the dairy may separate and give the soup a grainy texture.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 27 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • In a grainy set, there are many small 3D sections where lots of tubes overlap.
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025

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