Words similar to dirt

Example sentences for: dirt

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

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.
But when it happens, you know where you are--in front of the television, dozing contentedly, while doctors say "stat" and cops say "dirt bag" and Tom Brokaw says "drug lords" and "terrorists," and "I want that stat, you dirt bag!"
Dirt Rider
Or this, as Inman battles the three thieves: "[H]e eventually smote the three down to their knees in the dirt of the street so they looked like those of the Romish faith at prayer."
"The woman at the counter treated me like a piece of dirt," he wrote.