Sometimes steampunk is used in stories to give a rough, gritty feel.

They had a gritty feel, and rasped when he set his glass down.

Gretchen thought the warm and gritty feel of it under her bare feet was marvelous.

The area, part of which was ravaged during the 1968 riots, is gentrifying but still has a gritty feel.

Chisholm, with a population of about 6,000, has a grittier feel.

She remember the gritty feel of the cold sand.

Writers who want a grittier feel to their fiction usually opt for something closer to the reader's experience in space and time.

Hollywood types go for the "gritty" feel of its streets.

It was shot in stark black-and-white, underscoring the film's gritty feel.

The distinctive gritty feel of huge skis moving on packed snow.