Finer [adjective]

Denser materials hold heat better than finer-grained ones, like how a sandy beach cools quickly after sundown, but single large rocks remain warm.

To get a slightly finer-grained look at population outflow, we called up Nancy Wu.

In connection with this comes the consideration of slides and the finer modulations of tone-color, movement, and cadence.

As observation widens and grows finer, the first bald representation becomes fuller and more life-like.

With children of finer perception the transition to a correct profile view may be carried much further.

German tobacco cures well, and some of the finer sorts make excellent cigar wrappers and are much esteemed throughout Europe.

Harrowing makes finer the lumps near the surface, and mixes the fertilizer deeper than a rake can be used.

Each time the tidal wave sweeps in toward the shore it urges the finer particles of sediment along with it.

The Americans maintain that there will be no finer harbour in the Far East when the work is completed.

Never were high-bush blackberries finer or riper; but the largest and ripest seemed always the hardest to get at.