Sentence examples for grain of the from inspiring English sources

The grain of the wood was incidental.

We were a knot in the grain of the world".

It certainly ran against the grain of the day.

That went against the grain of the marketplace and the patrons of the craft world.

Jane picked a grain of the stuffing from her lipsticky lip and said: Rice.

That, he continued, "went against the grain of the Manchester United way".

It goes with the grain of the [freedom of information] act".

Each stone is part of the continuous grain of the original marble".

Kramnik uses 3... c5, which goes against the grain of the currently favored 3... Bf5.

This poem is going to be worked out of the grain of the poet's nature.

Even then it felt like writing against the grain of the times.