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grime

[grahym] / graɪm /


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No one seems to mind the industrial grime.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Fatboy Slim will perform an exclusive DJ set at The Pipeline in Brighton, external, where the capacity is just 60 people; while grime legend D Double E plays a warehouse gig at Nottingham's Brickworks.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

Signs of poor cleaning include strong urine odors, dirty floors, and visible grime.

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

Cinematographer Guillermo Garza shoots neglected settings like fine art, embracing the grime.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

Only then did Alex notice that Nunu was right: their dad was covered in soot and grime.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

The different greases and grimes each part creates.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2022

Sabela grimes for their performances in “The Motherboard Suite”; and Annique Roberts, for her work with the dance company Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.

From New York Times Oct. 12, 2021

Sabela grimes, is a bit of a departure in that it's more heavily Afro-Cuban than salsa-influenced.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2016

Boucher has written, on Tumblr, that “claire and grimes are completely different ppl at this point,” and has said, of a disappointing performance, “It wasn’t a Grimes show…. It was Claire pretending to be Grimes.”

From The New Yorker Nov. 19, 2015

Brushing away the powder grimes that had settled in his face, Custer looked over the boiling sea of fury around him, peering through the smoke for some signs of Reno and Benteen, but seeing none.

From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Inman, Henry

Peter's troubles and the damage he causes are terrible in close-up, but seen through a broader lens grimed up by reality, they're almost tolerable.

From Salon Nov. 1, 2020

Wong’s works are as outré as Tseng’s are hermetic, landscapes that obscure the painter and take in the men — usually men, mostly Latino — behind the grimed facades of Manhattan’s then-frayed edges.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2018

Scrap that off-brand toaster oven they’ve grimed up beyond recognition and buy them Cuisinart’s CSO-300 Steam Oven, capable of cutting cooking times by 40 percent.

From Newsweek

Her grimed, lined face suggested that of a ravaged Nefertiti,-and she gazed upon the general obliteration with the self-conscious superiority of the implacable progressive.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had been too distracted to notice the house’s disarray on her previous visit, the grimed plates, sawdust, and piles of clothes.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

There was no gilding the lily, or rather the opposite: no griming the garbage can.

From Slate Dec. 20, 2016

Tears gleamed on the stern fighter's cheeks, there in the ghostly blue firelight—tears that washed little courses through the dust and sand now griming his face.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan

The confused indigene, driven by admonition and shame put on the hot and griming stuffs, and finally, had them kept on him by statute.

From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.

Just as the cakes became heavier, tougher, more ordinary, as the months passed, so the whole enterprise suffered gradually from that coarsening and griming which seems an inevitable result of Chicago use.

From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert

He picked up the book, griming the dainty pages as he turned them with his rough fingers, glancing at the headings.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard




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