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How to use the word finer in a Sentence?

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(We) are unable to recognize and memorize finer facial features, even in humans.

Pranjal Swarup

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you notice, all blow-dry bars, Great Clips, Supercuts, etc. market and have built their business model toward those with a finer texture of hair. These businesses don't carry the products or tools nor do they perform styles that cater to women with thick and curly hair, unfortunately, hair salons are very segregated along the lines of race.

Dana White

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You got to stay solid in these present time’s, even today we all feel some sort of designed problems; however wait until your coldest day’s turn into sunshine and don’t give up; it would be a pity to spend life without finer days. -MillYentei

Deshawn Yeldell

added by MillYentei.L.D.Y
3 years ago

He’s going to have exceptional range for a first baseman, and look, there are finer points of the position that will take time to adjust. We understand that there are going to be mistakes. That’s OK. But Keston is going to grow through it, and ultimately we’re very confident that he’s going to be able to figure it out.

David Stearns

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

And look, there are finer points of the position that will take time to adjust. We understand that there are going to be mistakes. That’s OK. But Keston is going to grow through it, and ultimately we’re very confident that he’s going to be able to figure it out.

Keston Hiura

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There are few things finer than a walk among the trees on an autumn day.

Laura Jaworski

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It seems beneath the moment to spend so much time debating the finer points of healthcare plans that will be revised a hundred times before they are ever even proposed to Congress, let alone passed into law, while Rome is burning all around us, i would rather see more of a conversation about the forest, and less about the trees.

Tim Miller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

On one hand, I believe in conviction politics. I think you need to forcefully defend your values and explain why you believe in the things you believe in, but one reason that you'll hear me not being too doctrinaire about some of these policy groups is an awareness that the reality in government is you're going to be adjusting the finer points of the policy, anyway.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I would start with halfway between the middle setting on your grinder and the coarsest setting, if you find your coffee is sour, then grind finer. If you find it’s a little bit bitter, then grind coarser.

Richard Nieto

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I’ve known Administrator Long now for 15 years.We could n’t have picked a finer leader.He’s had state director experience.He’s had FEMA experience. Administrator Long’s absolutely the top of the top.

Tom Bossert

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We suspect that with a finer-grain understanding of behavior on phones, we will get stronger predictions.

David Mohr

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We hope that by further sharpening our estimate of current export levels by product in the weekly report, it will provide readers with even finer insights into U.S. consumption of petroleum fuels.

Robert Merriam

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Woodrow Wilson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.

Michael W. Moore

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

Alford

added by anonymous
13 years ago

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Woodrow Wilson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

Virginia Woolf

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Astor

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Elbert Hubbard

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer

George Price

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self... Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Vash Young

added by anonymous
14 years ago

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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