How to Use granular in a Sentence

granular

adjective

• There are lots of loose, granular and bare spots on the report.
  — John Hopewell, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• The movie has a sifted texture, and some of the faces, and the naked bodies, are no more than granular blurs.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
• In a sport where teams chase the smallest and most granular edges, the sheer luck of a coin provides a colossal one.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
• Ascertain whether the soil in the hole is quite damp, dry, and crumbly, granular (like beach sand), or fine and smooth (like clay).
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
• Because the recipe is made with milk instead of cream, the texture was granular and stiff.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 30 Nov. 2020
• Her plan for this new restaurant is both sweeping and granular, a collage of ideas grandiose and close to the ground.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
• The cheese is a great choice for the pizza: deeply nutty but not too granular, with a smooth meltiness.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• At the same time, he is adept at both zooming in—on the granular detail—and zooming out to go beyond the game.
  — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Apple bought the brilliant Dark Sky app a while back and some of the granular detail that that has is now on the Weather app.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• That very granular existence comes through in the movie as well.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
• But this one gets into the granular detail of growing up in a small town.
  — Andrew Dansby, ExpressNews.com, 31 May 2020
• The texture can vary from dry and crumbly to wet and granular depending on the moisture content of the milk solids.
  — Hetal Vasavada, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2020
• Fall is also a great time of the year to feed trees and shrubs with granular fertilizer.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2022
• Details as granular as short-term rentals and parking need to be worked out.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
• Stirring too soon can create a granular ganache, not one that’s satiny, glossy, and smooth.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
• Some of Hendler-Grunt’s best practices are more granular.
  — Fortune, 1 June 2022
• At the same time, these functional managers struggle to stay up to speed and get a granular view of work progress.
  — Suresh Sambandam, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• But there has been less research on these trends at a more granular level.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
• Deep dive, drill down, granular: Should be avoided at any cost.
  — Suresh Rangarajan, Quartz India, 31 July 2019
• The time to dissect the games on Denver’s schedule in granular detail will come further down the road.
  — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 16 May 2025
• But the more granular things get — say a city sampling every block — then there’s more cause for concern.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
• The more granular the data, the better your analysis will be.
  — Nacho De Marco, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• And don’t get so granular as to find out what happens to each character.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 3 July 2024
• But the findings from the company’s study were less granular.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• Pull the mulch back and sprinkle granular fertilizer onto the soil around the drip lines and hand water it in.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• In an exclusive clip of the film below, the pair’s Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight hash out some of the most granular details of the show.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 6 July 2023
• Remember to not go too granular about the tech specs and instead tell a story.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Then use heat map software like CrazyEgg or HotJar to get more granular.
  — David Gaz, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
• Still, other Democrats said focusing merely on the outcome of the vote seemed too granular.
  — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 27 May 2025
• Yet sometimes all of modern life seems to be pushing people toward knowing themselves in more and more granular ways.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025