Sentence examples for rather fine from inspiring English sources

"rather fine" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe something that is better than expected and/or good, but not quite perfect or excellent. For example: "The soup was rather fine - not the best I ever tasted, but still good."

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A rather fine distinction, perhaps.

Picking the exact two would be a rather fine art".

That may seem to be cutting things rather fine, but it is probably a reasonable compromise.

Such a distinction might seem rather fine, and many conflate the two, but it really matters.

This rather fine debut album by singing guitarist Anna Calvi finds her howling: "The Devil!

The new design by Christoph Ingenhoven's team appears, superficially at least, to be rather fine.

His enthusiasm for what might be judged a rather fine point of history is infectious.

And they threw it around and ran it about and scored some rather fine tries.

In terms of wages and living standards, he says, "we're doing rather fine.

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Incidental Intelligence: The American War Correspondents Association, a group of World War II chaps who have their headquarters on West 54 St., got a letter from an East Side lady requesting an answer to several rather fine-point questions about the American Revolution.

Eggs and buttermilk are non-negotiable ingredients for southern cornbread, but Foreman mixes her buttermilk with sour cream for a richer flavour, and Cooks Illustrated makes a "mush" with cornmeal and boiling water before adding the buttermilk, on the basis that this makes a bread that's "moist, tender, and rather fine-crumbed without flour".

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