How To Use Coarsened In A Sentence
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Their minds coarsened
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Now a white-haired man with weathered skin and palms coarsened by years of handling paint and chemicals, he seems more willing to discuss the influences on his life and work.
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But it has cheapened and coarsened the discourse in this country.
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Rubenfeld brings back the stars of his earlier bestseller, "The Interpretation of Murder": Jimmy Littlemore, still the cleanest cop in New York; and Dr. Stratham Younger, older and a bit coarsened after tending to the wounded in Europe during World War I.
Book review: 'The Death Instinct' by Jed Rubenfeld
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Her hair gradually coarsened as she grew older.
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Britain gave him BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow, where he was appointed amid grandiose claims about the BBC's Medici-like patronage of architecture, only to be pushed to the side in favour of "executive architects" and see a coarsened version of his design built.
David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
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As the debate coarsened, thanks mainly to Dobbs, then the center ground disappeared,
Niall O'Dowd: Lou Dobbs Lit the Flames of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in America
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But the simple fact is that the language of praise and enthusiasm has been so cheapened and coarsened by years of overuse at the hands of publicists that the words no longer mean anything.
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You'll probably hear a lot about how Beck coarsened the political debate and how his words may or may not have incited violence, but I think the wreckage is a lot more substantive, to actual policies that affect Americans every day.
Will Bunch: It May Take 27 Years to Undo the Damage Glenn Beck Caused in 27 Months
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My father astonished me by putting out his hand to the priest, admittedly a hard hand coarsened by digging, and Fr Gaunt astonished me by immediately flicking the ash into the offered hand, which perhaps flinched tinily for a moment when the heat hit it.
Asylum
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One cannot coarsen what has ALREADY been coarsened by the left. .nt
“Coarsening.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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-- The relation of thought to action filled my mind on waking, and I found myself carried toward a bizarre formula, which seems to have something of the night still clinging about it: _Action is but coarsened thought_; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Amiel's Journal
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In the glare of the bedside lamp she could see the features magnified, coarsened, pores like miniature craters, two unplucked hairs standing like bristles at the corner of the mouth.
She Closed Her Eyes
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In a tale that also relies on face-recognition gizmos—they're deployed as casually as dental floss—the most readily recognizable face belongs to the star, whose features have matured and coarsened with the passage of time.
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His former good looks have coarsened, and he knows it.
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He is dismayed by the way this has coarsened modern life.
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The purpose of normalizing is usually to define grain structures that have been coarsened in forging.
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The voice, however, has deepened and coarsened, gritting around in a low-alto register and lacking stamina for the longer phrase.
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But some are finding that new types of Lenten fasting might serve a useful purpose in a world coarsened by electronic media.
Lent gets an update: More add social service to sacrifice
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Where once he was a golden child, handsome and normal-looking, now his features have coarsened, his hair is growing grey.
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One cannot coarsen what has ALREADY been coarsened by the left. .nt
“Coarsening.” - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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Your hair stands on end, so many matchsticks on a face coarsened by self-abuse.
The Mockingbird Sings
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Her voice was rich, and coarsened by cigarettes, I thought.
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The windy and dusty weather coarsened her skin.
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But now he was fat and coarsened with age, his teeth betel-stained.
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Your hair stands on end, so many matchsticks on a face coarsened by self-abuse.
The Mockingbird Sings
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Rather, the stylistic dullness is disagreeably coarsened and made the more decadent by being a brotherly symptom of, and in fact a technical support for, the assumption (which has only strengthened in the past 150 years) that the aim of poetry is apotheosis, an ecstatic and unmediated self-consumption in the moment of perception and feeling.
“The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
