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Example sentences for: gritty

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

' " (Chris Kaltenbach, the Baltimore Sun ). Says Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times : "It's a gritty story made in the director's more elegiacal mode, a confusion of style and content that is not in the film's best interests."
One of the nice things about Lemann's story is the way it moves from Conant's lofty writings down to the gritty struggles of politics and campaigns, showing how the original idea--sorting people by scientific tests--was twisted by events.
Hold it--there's something about the words "gritty" and "Sharon Stone" that don't belong in the same sentence.
Critics are harsh on the film's premise and execution, but a few find bright spots in Judd's beauty and Tommy Lee Jones' gritty turn as her parole officer.
And I still have a copy of the restraining order he obtained when I attempted, in an excess of neighborly zeal, to climb the fire escape in the loft next to his in that gritty industrial area he called home.