Coarse

//kɔːs//

"Coarse" in a Sentence (20 examples)

Soft wool is more expensive than coarse wool and both are superior to synthetics made of nylon.

He is coarse in manner.

Her dress was made of coarse wool.

Her skin is coarse from years of working outdoors.

I'm sorry, my Uighur is a little coarse.

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

He has such coarse manners!

But it is specially evil that the young maiden folk are exceedingly bold of speech and bearing, and curse like troopers, to say nothing of their shameful words and scandalous coarse sayings, which one always hears and learns from another.

The tailor thought that the garment fit perfectly, but the customer complained and said the garment was short and the fabric poor and coarse.

Semisolid snow that will barely hold a person, coarse snow with a hard, rugged crust and light, fluffy lying snow. There are Sami words for these and hundreds more types of snow.

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Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.

coarse sand

Graham flour is coarsely granulated wheat meal. No sieves or bolting cloths are employed in its manufacture, and many coarse, unpulverized particles are present in the product.

Missing units may be attributed to either the lack of proper sized material in the source or the successive, downcurrent sedimentation of the coarser materials first and the finer materials last.

coarse manners

coarse language

☞ This word [earth] is liable to a coarſe vulgar pronunciation, as if written Urth;[…]

The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.

Due to the internet issue, the system generated an coarse audio file.

She detests visiting coarse places.

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