Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: coarser
IPA transcription: [k'ɔɹsɚ]
Usage examples
  • Perhaps it was a bit coarser.
  • The gold is not any coarser, but there is more of it.
  • Her lover was equally impassioned, but his passion was mingled with feelings of a coarser nature.
  • There are also in that region diggings of coarser gold on small streams that empty into the main river.
  • His work "took" because of its coarser qualities, the accentuated bitterness, the startling irony, the vigorous, characteristic phrase.
  • Drinking tempts some men not only by taste, but by the appeal to sociability; to other coarser natures the joys of Bacchus offer the one hope of exhilaration.
  • Of this structure, called FOLIATION, we may distinguish two types,--a coarser feldspathic type, and a fine type in which other minerals than feldspar predominate.
  • The pain may be whistled away and forgotten; the mind may be rendered by it only a little harder, a little coarser, a little more secretive and sullen and familiar with unrightable wrong.
  • The screening process allowed the finest part of the crushed rock to pass on, by conveyor belts, to the magnetic separators, while the coarser particles were in like manner automatically returned to the rolls for further reduction.
  • The ballads are not more true to the facts; but they give us, in a coarser form, far more of the spirit than we get from the same facts reflected in the intellect of a Dickens, for instance, or of any writer far enough above the scene to be properly its artist.