fineness

How To Use fineness In A Sentence

• Gold's purity is expressed either as fineness or in karats.
• He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer.
• The fineness and softness of the dress caught her attention.
• And if reputation and reward shall attend these conquests, which depend mostly on the fineness and niceties of words, it is no wonder if the wit of man so employed, should perplex, involve, and subtilize the signification of sounds, so as never to want something to say in opposing or defending any question; the victory being adjudged not to him who had truth on his side, but the last word in the dispute. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• The batter is quite a bit thinner than that of pancakes, and the trick is to use its fineness to the finished crepe's advantage.
• It's the fineness of the thread that makes the cloth so soft.
• Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the [Page 222] senses if we are to appreciate harmony. The Montessori Method
• The fineness of the fibers, spun with a high degree of twist, gives the yarn a springy resilience.
• In the reign of Henry VIII. the shipwrights of this country began to build ships which combined something of the strength, and capacity of the dromond, with the length and fineness of the galley. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
• There is a possibility that alkalinity of ash is related to fiber fineness.