Example sentences for: dirt

How can you use “dirt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There it was again, an island of Slates, dull as dirt but not as cheap: two pairs for $100.

  • Let us modify the device such that the cannonball, after hitting the paddle wheel and setting it spinning, is deflected downward onto the ground and digs a long shallow groove in the dirt, with high sides due to the displaced dirt.

  • 2) Now that he's dead, the dirt diggers will go after him, just as they went after Ozzie and Harriett.

  • This week, the Star runs a two-page "Star Style Special" cover story ("Shania: I'm not beautiful") that claims to have all the dirt on country superstar Shania Twain's "secret flaws" and what she's doing "to make herself perfect," including using a skin ointment meant for softening cows' udders.

  • The WP lead editorial says Starr "absurdly" subpoenaed White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, and assesses the White House strategy of "looking for dirt on prosecutors and trying to discredit straightforward reporting of embarrassing facts" as "sleazy."


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