Example sentences for: grainy

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

  • The allegations against Mayor Giuliani and President Clinton are not the contemporary equivalent of Gary Hart's videotaped escapades on the appropriately named Monkey Business . Do you remember the grainy video of Hart--stop motion, circle around Hart, circle around Rice, drinking, fun--that was broadcast for days on local and national news programs?

  • You've seen this sort of picture before: People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.

  • Why no journalistic outrage about that ? Well, for starters, try looking at a grainy newsweekly-sized photo of Lou Gerstner and see if it makes you remember Pearl Harbor.

  • Juxtaposed with the opening shot of a teen-ager sitting on a curb is Dole, in grainy and smeared video footage that obviously has been blown up.

  • This staining has a 'grainy' appearance that could be mistaken for punctate signals.


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