coarsen

How To Use coarsen In A Sentence

•  The bird's silky down began to coarsen and fray, and its beak began to harden and grow. Old Egg
• Besides grating cheese, my wife likes the coarseness for grating zucchini and carrots for baking.
• The description of the cultural and physical coarsening which the circumstances evoke is masterly. Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 - Press Release
• Sadly, decency has been replaced in great measure by coarseness hence the absence of remorse or contrition.
• I certainly believe that the blogosphere should advance and ennoble the public debate - not coarsen it.
• This really depends on different factors such as hair color, the coarseness of the hair and the type of the skin.
• Indeed, for well defined dynamical domains, changing the coarseness does not modify significantly its definition.
• The coarseness of the ingredients will wash the dead cell when you remove the mixture from face.
• But these places are not dirtier than a railway smoking-car; and there is no more coarseness than in any ferryboat which is, for whatever reason, used by men only. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
• I did not like the sentimental coarseness of Mr. Grattan's speech.