filthy
Example Sentences
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She then was transferred to Pretrial Detention Centre Number 5 in Donetsk, where she shared a small, filthy cell with around 20 common-law prisoners.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Strong supports the closing of Men’s Central Jail and said the department needed to look at medical care, filthy living conditions and a lack of healthy food and clean water.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Four years ago, Robert Brovdi was more comfortable in auction houses like Christie's than filthy trenches.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
On the way to a fancy ball, his gallant attempt to guide his date past a fetid puddle ends with him splashing her “from head to foot with that filthy water.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The filthy sweater pulled from the underbrush had been the one she’d laid over Clare all those years ago.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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