Example sentences for: filthy

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

  • He judged the Creoles honest but lazy and illeducated, their town ugly and filthy — though his horror at the city’s sanitation was understandable; he would lose two wives to yellow fever in New Orleans.

  • Yellow fever, dysentery, and scurvy killed a sizable proportion of these unfortunates, who were crammed into filthy floating prisons (called “hulks”) during the hours they weren’t working.

  • I shouldn't leave out comic books; I like Peter Bagge ("Hate"), but I think Ivan Brunetti, who does a filthy, rancid, brutal comic book called "Schizo" is brilliant.

  • In just five years, Carey and his allies have almost banished corruption from a union that was filthy to its bones.

  • But he also shows that borrowings worked both ways, and that white audiences were more daringly receptive to certain rock innovations, if their delight in Little Richard's filthy lyrics is any indication.


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