Example sentences for: coarse

How can you use “coarse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A classic, of course, is coarse . This word seems to have popped up in the early 15th century, as an adjectival form of course `ordinary order' or `normal manner.

  • The Dutch, most notably, have adopted an English expletive too coarse to reproduce here (though if I say, “hits the fan” I expect you'll be with me), but they use it as a mild and largely meaningless epithet, roughly equivalent to our gosh or golly or even just hmmmm --to such an extent, I am told that they must now take special care not to startle English-speaking visitors.

  • Confronted recently with a coarse question as to whether the United States was "willing to talk to Milosevic," Lockhart stonily replied, "The NATO alliance has made demands, and he needs to meet them."

  • The peasants themselves often had nothing but bread or bread and coarse wine.

  • Also, simulations using contaminant data located close to the true mode (67 thpercentile) showed that mode estimators performed poorly under those conditions, as noted elsewhere [ 2 ] , especially with the normal and coarse original distributions.


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