How to Use grimy in a Sentence
grimy
adjective
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In a world this grimy, there’s nowhere to turn for help.
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Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
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But by this time some of the grimy men are fast asleep.
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Mark Jenkins,
National Geographic,
12 June 2019
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The walls and walkway leading to the front door were grimy.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2024
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The streets were dirty and grimy, crime ran amok and morale was at an all-time low.
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Jack Kelly,
Forbes,
7 July 2021
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How to Clean White Shoelaces So what about those grimy laces?
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Caroline Picard,
Good Housekeeping,
23 July 2019
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The cover is tattered, ink-stained and grimy around the edges.
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Tim Carman,
Washington Post,
26 Oct. 2022
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The crazy thing, though, is that none of those places are nearly as grimy as ... the check-in kiosk.
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Danielle Tullo,
House Beautiful,
30 May 2018
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And that only scrapes the surface of this grimy rogue’s gallery.
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Kim Kelly,
The New Republic,
28 Apr. 2020
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The streets were dirty and grimy, crime ran rampant and morale was at an all-time low.
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Jack Kelly,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2022
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The woodblock floor was covered in a grimy black goop, and an oily haze hung in the air.
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Rich Ceppos,
Car and Driver,
29 Apr. 2023
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Have a grimy sheet pan that no amount of scrubbing will get clean?
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Mackenzie Chung Fegan,
Bon Appétit,
11 Oct. 2022
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The original is dark and grimy, bass-heavy with a wonky beat.
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Kat Bein,
Billboard,
23 Oct. 2017
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The grimy floors, with trails of dirt closing in around a drain below my feet.
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Jenna Birch,
Health.com,
20 May 2020
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The undersides of his white sport socks were grimy with dirt.
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Douglas Stuart,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2020
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Just their lyrics, the imagery, the Kung-Fu element to it, the dirty, grimy hip-hop beats.
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
6 May 2022
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Do not be fooled by the miserable mood and the grimy 1970s backdrop.
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N.b.,
The Economist,
3 Oct. 2019
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While that may be a badge of honor on the mound, that grimy peak may not look as good in the bleachers.
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Maryal Miller Carter,
USA TODAY,
30 Aug. 2023
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While that may be a badge of honor on the mound, that grimy peak may not look as good in the bleachers.
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Maryal Miller Carter,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2024
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The town was a little more grimy and had much more of its old-world charm still attached.
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Craig Hlavaty,
Houston Chronicle,
12 Feb. 2018
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So this spring, make a little time to go outside and get grimy.
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Holly Burns,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2024
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Dad worked at the steelworks cleaning out the furnaces, a grimy job.
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Marc Myers,
WSJ,
22 Nov. 2022
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There was a grimy old tub in one room, a dingy, derelict fridge in another.
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Mark Shanahan,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 Oct. 2022
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Like Las Vegas itself, the arts district is a mixture of the rough, the grimy and the sublime.
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Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
13 Aug. 2022
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Video of the inside of the home shows filthy floors, grimy walls and huge heaps of belongings inside the rooms.
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Jessica Schmidt,
Cincinnati.com,
21 Sep. 2017
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Puddles would capture the hue of neon lights in a grimy alley.
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Gieson Cacho,
The Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2024
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His yellow Nomex shirt was grimy and ripped across the back of his shoulders, as if he’d been mauled by a tiger.
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The New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2021
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And in its place was the grimy, six-inch beak of Australia’s most infamous bird.
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Michael E. Miller,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2024
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The players, still sweating and grimy, change into their street clothes and head home.
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Los Angeles Times,
28 Aug. 2019
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Screaming and dancing and managing to be clean, grimy, slick, and rough all at the same time.
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Fresh U,
Teen Vogue,
26 Mar. 2018
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The sets up as a grimy, hand-in-the-ground cage match given the excellence of both defenses.
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Matt Schubert,
The Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2024
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