dirt

Example Sentences

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Around sunset on Sept. 22, six days after Cynthia was last seen, a rural landowner was walking her dog on a private dirt road 40 miles south of Arlington when she noticed a foul odor.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

We stood atop a dirt patch next to a crumbling curb.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

I grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., where my family lived in a one-story, brown-stucco house that had mostly boulders and dirt in the backyard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

If you want to hear about the dirt and the lore and the legends, all of it is here, and it’s all pretty unvarnished.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

I turned up leaves and dug a bit in the dirt, but I didn’t find so much as a snail.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff