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
• The videos were captured in log format with Apple's ProRes lossless video codec, delivering footage that looks flat but gives the editors much more granular control to color grade and match the visuals with the rest of the film.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 16 June 2025
• After that, feed them every three or four weeks with an all-nitrogen granular fertilizer with 30% to 40% of that nitrogen in slow-release form.
  — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 June 2025