dirty

Example Sentences

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Someone in a second DNR truck was doing that right now—firing cracker shells into the air from a shotgun as they chased a big dirty polar bear back to the tundra.

From Literature

“If it’s dull, dirty, or dangerous,” one of Remus’s operators tells Mr. Sancton, “it’s a good job for robots.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Officers described K's bedroom as looking like a "prison cell", with other bedrooms also untidy and dirty.

From BBC

It certainly looked like the same blanket—old, faded, sort of dirty gray, with one corner that was especially old and faded and dirty gray.

From Literature

"If it's dirty water I'd think twice about going in there."

From BBC