His face had been lined and coarsened by the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

And I thought it coarsened the quality of our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis] Reference

I was slim as ever; my face had not coarsened but fined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

"He is young to be blunted and coarsened," thinks Philip.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

The fibre of my mind coarsened and my eyes grew miserably keen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

"I've coarsened a little, but this country will take your bloom.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonesome Dove]

Since I List saw him when he was fourteen Larius had coarsened up.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

Wherever envy comes into play, judgment is coarsened and cheapened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The recommended daily allowance] Reference

The war against Algarve had coarsened him, as it had everybody else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers of the Darkness]

She had never been attractive and had coarsened with advancing years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100]

The tension coarsened their breathing and Duff was no longer smiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

Victor's voice coarsened in a way that Jerry recognized as dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Dog]

And he represents a White House that has coarsened the national fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Super Tuesday: Gore Sweeps Bradley; Bush Scores Decisive Victories Over McCain - March 7, 2000] Reference

` Nothing much, 'he eventually said, voice coarsened by the usual vices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fleshmarket Close]

Once again, the basest urges of young men had coarsened society -- right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Lara Croft Steals Hearts] Reference

Belts would be tightened, recipes lost, skills forgotten, tastes coarsened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Britain's Palate] Reference

He is the apostle of realism, coarsened by a love of the horrible and unclean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

This one day had coarsened my whole mind, bespattered my soul with shamelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

As the debate coarsened, thanks mainly to Dobbs, then the center ground disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Niall O'Dowd: Lou Dobbs Lit the Flames of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in America] Reference

Black hair bristled all over his body and his face coarsened into Neanderthal features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Bartlett and Casey felt a chill go down their backs as Peter Marlowe coarsened his voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Her continued proximity will lower the already coarsened tenor of American political debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Fellow GOPers Try To Knife Stevens In The Back?] Reference

His human blood coarsened and thickened his features just enough that it was very noticeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elvenblood]

Campaign-finance disclosure rules have encouraged harassment of donors and coarsened public debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Quotable] Reference

He ends the series a coarsened veteran, enduring the long-term consequences of his time in the marines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pacific: episode 10] Reference

Page 27 of guys who were so alienated or so coarsened by life that they were not admirable people at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Harold Fleming, January 24, 1990. Interview A-0363. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Even in a country coarsened by skepticism, few doubted that the gentleman from Michigan would keep his word.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2007] Reference

Her skin had coarsened, tanned from all the time they were spending in the yardsitting beneath the brazen sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

I ran both hands through my hair, feeling the curls coarsened and sticky after exposure to the salty coastal air.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

It toned down the mottled cicatrice that coarsened the planes of her face and it showed them as they might have been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

The voice coarsened, the moves began to slow, but as a bandleader and conceptualist, he was Duke Ellington in polyester.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Brown, 1933-2006] Reference

Cable news, like talk radio, has coarsened our culture, turning it into a daily sideshow for loudmouths and know-nothings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Mann: TV Cable News: Pro Wrestling Meets The Argument Culture] Reference

In the process, he argues, the radio talkers have coarsened the political debate and diminished opportunities for bipartisanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadcast Broadside] Reference

Well, since 1992, the Internet has come along, and instant anonymous communication has coarsened old standards of common civility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Campaign Emails Out "Electability" Power-Point To All House Dems] Reference

A high forehead and strong straight nose were belied by plump cheeks and hair coarsened, it seemed, to me, by overzealous brushing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stream and The Torrent] Reference

The quality of political debate has been coarsened by partisans who question not just the ideas but the motives of their opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall of America, Inc.] Reference

Her nature had coarsened very much, Miss Winchelsea perceived, since the old Training College days; she had become hard and cynical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference

In a strong and rather agreeable voice, cracked and coarsened by street singing, she sang in hope of getting a copper from the shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crime and Punishment] Reference

Two years after Main Street, Lewis published Babbitt, and the modulated satire in the former had coarsened and intensified in the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheer Data] Reference