coarsened

Example Sentences

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In today’s coarsened climate, fretting about rules of politeness seems futile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

In these landscapes, naturalism and abstraction often battle to a pulsating draw by means of a magnified, or coarsened pointillism that recalls Seurat in its mosaic-like array of dots, dashes and commas.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2024

He thinks it has coarsened discourse in the Capitol.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021

And Crawford, his flinty good looks partly hidden by a dark beard and coarsened by the cold Utah air, all but buries David in an inchoate weave of jealousy, confusion and fury.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2021

Her skin had coarsened, tanned from all the time they were spending in the yard sitting beneath the brazen sun.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini