Example sentences for: dirty

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

  • Knowledge of this confession was relayed from the dirty to the clean team, which then used the tip to help it extract its own, legal confession.

  • In the Dirty Harry movies or the rabidly right-wing 1986 Heartbreak Ridge (which ends with a potency-reclaiming invasion of Grenada), there's little irony in Eastwood's superiority to the succession of louts, prisses, and psychopaths whom his character inevitably clobbers or blows away, or in the fact that he is of greater stature than the actors with whom he surrounds himself.

  • Rowling's phenomenally popular Harry Potter books will recognize the Sorting Hat as a magical wizard's hat, pointed and "patched and frayed and extremely dirty," that assigns new students at Hogwarts, the boarding school for aspiring wizards, to one of four houses--Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin.

  • Just ask any literature professor how quickly English, French, and German departments flushed out their theory mavens once deconstruction became a dirty word.

  • The act of gardening itself was joyous--rising early, smelling earth, getting dirty, getting scratches that I wore proudly, making compost, lugging, digging, and planting.


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