dirty
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"It's rather a dirty business today," says Martin Sahlberg.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
He first encounters Fricker’s odd character in Central Park, dressed in oversized, dirty clothing with city birds resting on her head and shoulders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"We are now at the point where we need to ask customers to help by hanging up the hosepipe, letting lawns go brown, cars go dirty and using water even more wisely," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“We know how to play against dirty football.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
“Did something happen with your hands? Besides being scraped up by dirty concrete?”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Natural gas has long been billed as a "bridge fuel" between dirtier polluting fossil fuels and renewables such as wind and solar.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
One health benefit of “demand response” programs like this is that they keep older, dirtier gas fired power plants from turning on.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
On the other hand, as the New York Times reports, some countries may be forced to go back to outdated and even dirtier resources like coal.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
Its reliance on imports has been increasing as domestic oil and gas fields such as the North Sea basin deplete and climate policies phase out dirtier fuels including coal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
It was harder to say who was dirtier, the children or the beasts.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
Listening to “The Boutique,” I feel like I should be smoking a cigarette and drinking the dirtiest martini known to man in a speakeasy, wearing a drop waist silk dress and bright red lipstick.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
For the 10th consecutive year, the area around the Santa Monica Pier was named one of California’s dirtiest beaches by researchers with the environmental nonprofit Heal the Bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
He urges his team to hire “somebody that has dealt in the dirtiest of dirtiest dirty business of media and propaganda.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
The dirtiest laundry isn’t aired, and even at nine hours, it clips along so swiftly that the hardest times feel softened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025
He lifted out the dirtiest, most ragged pair of britches I had ever seen in my life.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
“Today, there are also open drains lining homes which dirties the blue paint and damages the walls,” says Mr Dave.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
“It dirties up a case. It brings in more otherwise inadmissible information,” said Hamasaki, who is now running for San Francisco district attorney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Buying two or three sets of sheets does mean using up some already limited storage, but students not terribly laundry-responsible won’t go into crisis when the dirties pile up.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
"This summit does not dignify anyone, rather, it dirties them, it sullies them. We Latin Americans have to defend ourselves so that they respect us."
From Reuters ● May 19, 2022
Whenever he feels trapped and panic sets in, he loses control and dirties himself.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
The windows are another part of the spacecraft not quite working as planned after they were dirtied by the astronauts spending a lot of time "glued to the windows" while taking photographs.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
During one spurt of construction, High Point offered free carwashes and valet service because the dust dirtied vehicles and the work limited parking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Soon after word of the war’s end reaches Bertie and Sofie, Bertie discovers an emaciated young man unconscious in the asparagus patch “in the dirtied stripes of a camp prisoner.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025
It depicts the bust of Sir Ernest Shackleton, wearing dirtied yellow suspenders, his face benevolent and tough, but blurred by the thickness of the paint on canvas.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
When the animals came back, they were saddened to see that the water had been so dirtied.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
She said the latest ban will "protect the environment and help to cut litter - stopping plastic pollution dirtying our streets and threatening our wildlife".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2023
Osaka prefectural police on Wednesday said Ryu Shimazu and Toshihide Oka were arrested on suspicion of obstructing business and destroying and dirtying property.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
It’s a plan that risks pleasing no one, while also dirtying the company’s valuation.
From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2023
“But he said arguments spoil its beauty, and that he would feel as if he was dirtying a flower with muddy hands.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
Ma rolls the wheelchair back so we have enough space to slide out of the pew without tripping or brushing against the wheels of her chair and dirtying up our holy dresses.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
