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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of coarse
Adjective
The vacuum itself has a six-stage filtration system (main cycle, mess filter, dura-cycle, coarse sponge, fine sponge and HEPA 13 filter). Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025 This lightweight oil disappears into hair on contact, softening coarse strands, detangling knots, and taming frizz. Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors. Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025 The coarseness of your grounds is determined by the width of the space between the two grinding burrs. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coarse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coarse
Adjective
  • The book is filled with vulgar pictures, with many faces blacked out, and messages both handwritten and typed from well-wishers for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The biopic is the vulgar but necessary tribute inherently populist cinema pays to more traditional, higher-brow art.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Guests will enjoy the experience free from disruptive behavior, foul language, obscene gestures, fighting, unruly conduct or inconsiderate actions.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Other users called her obscene names, threatened to show up at her workplace, or sent her a photograph of guns.
    Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Her voice was loud and hoarse, calling out comments or exhortations concerning the game.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Joe Biden’s disastrous June 2024 debate performance, when the nation witnessed a hoarse and feeble president losing his train of thought and struggling to finish sentences, ended his re-election campaign.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Bowles’s diction is jagged and strange, surprising but seemingly inevitable.
    Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Along the way, road trippers wind their way along the Lake Superior shoreline, where waves crash against jagged cliffs and waterfalls tumble into the great lake.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The poll also found that 51% of respondents perceive the current state of the economy as poor, and 61% express a lack of confidence that the economy will improve next year.
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Low User Adoption Due To Poor Onboarding The primary hurdle is often low user adoption due to poor onboarding and a steep learning curve.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • If senior figures display rudeness or disrespect, employees may assume that such behavior is acceptable, making selective enforcement seem arbitrary and undermining of trust.
    Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With nearly 400 responses recounting long waits for a check to outright rudeness, customers detailed what pushes them from their usual tipping habits to a complete cutoff.
    Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • During the video, Ollie can be seen running around the sandy beach before spotting another dachshund.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The property offers a resort experience, including a spa, a lazy river, and a pool with a makeshift sandy shoreline surrounded by cabanas.
    Charlie Vargas, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Coarse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coarse. Accessed 24 Sep. 2025.

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