Example sentences for: filth

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

  • The word was also very much alive in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the dialect of southwestern England, where it had come to mean any type of filth or litter, according to Elworthy's A West Somerset Word-Book.

  • I wrote a note to Alexander Chancellor, who was then the editor (and who now writes "International Papers" for Slate ), and asked how Waugh knew that it was a "filthy kosher breakfast," unless it was filth recognizing filth.

  • The dirt, grime, spit, and fouler substances that regularly adhere to one's clothing here make this fine metropolis a veritable fantasia of filth.

  • A third group, not of different ethnic origin from the Japanese mainstream but unquestionably inferior in status, are the burakumin (“village dwellers,” a euphemism for their old caste name — meaning “much filth” — which was officially abolished at the end of the 19th century).

  • White lies are, indeed, meant for situations like this, but in the case of "Nauseously Yours," there is the chance that straight shooting would be of real help to the roommate living in filth.


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