How to Use granular in a Sentence

granular

adjective
  • There are lots of loose, granular and bare spots on the report.
    — John Hopewell, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The more granular one can get in matchups, the better.
    — Kc Joyner, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The more granular one can get in matchups, the better.
    — Kc Joyner, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The more granular one can get in matchups, the better.
    — Kc Joyner, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But a granular shift seems to have occurred.
    — Ashley Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • More granular control will still need the app.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But there has been less research on these trends at a more granular level.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
  • But too much granular detail can suck the life out of something.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Details as granular as short-term rentals and parking need to be worked out.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • That very granular existence comes through in the movie as well.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But this one gets into the granular detail of growing up in a small town.
    — Andrew Dansby, ExpressNews.com, 31 May 2020
  • Stirring too soon can create a granular ganache, not one that’s satiny, glossy, and smooth.
    — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
  • And don’t get so granular as to find out what happens to each character.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Parker’s tweaks can be as granular as adjusting the bass note in a chord.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Because the recipe is made with milk instead of cream, the texture was granular and stiff.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Spread granular pre-emergent over the surface of moist soil, avoiding the plant and its base.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • With people, with places, with rich, granular details.
    — Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some complaints were more granular.
    — Charlotte Observer, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Fall is also a great time of the year to feed trees and shrubs with granular fertilizer.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Remember to not go too granular about the tech specs and instead tell a story.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • But the findings from the company’s study were less granular.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Apply a granular fertilizer around the plant when the ground thaws in spring and again in late spring.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Apr. 2026
  • At a plodding pace, the desert wilderness can be admired in all its granular splendor.
    — Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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