| It is close-grained and therefore of a high quality and particularly stable. |
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| Turbot thrives on rich sauces, and its firm, close-grained texture makes it closer to a fine cut of meat than most of its fishy friends. |
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| The close-grained, almost white wood is used for turned articles, woodenware, pulp, and fuel. |
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| A native of the Andes mountains, tagua nuts have long been prized for their hard, white, close-grained ivory meat. |
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| It is prized by diners for close-grained sweet flavor, and by restaurants for ease of filleting, which is why it's so often done tableside. |
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| The hard, strong, heavy close-grained wood is often beautifully patterned. |
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| Edith Wharton, of course, writes in such a startlingly sharp and close-grained way about how people live. |
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| Close inspection will reveal the difference between the wide-grained pine and the close-grained oak — these were furniture-grade works, not raw carpentry. |
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| The wood is hard, heavy, tough and close-grained. |
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| We are meticulous in our choice of barrels and use both French and American oak to ensure a complexity of aromas and in using close-grained oak we can be sure of the finesse and elegance of the tannins. |
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| In texture and size they look, at first glance, like very close-grained, asymmetric versions of one of Bridget Riley's prismatically divided, coloured abstracts. |
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