begrimed
Example Sentences
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He’s spent most of the past couple of days sitting on the begrimed concrete outside a bustling 7-Eleven.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2023
The flag was worn and begrimed with age, and almost a century old.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2020
He is about to shoot when the young, begrimed soldier holds up his hand in what is now the peace symbol, but at the time meant: "Do you have a cigarette?"
From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019
Later, he says that if she’s cheated on him, “Her name, that was as fresh/ As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black/ As mine own face.”
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2015
Nearly blinded by the flying embers he had dashed water on his head and face, and his matted hair and begrimed skin added to his frightened looks made him seem like another person.”
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
