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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:

The cable network's first dramatic series gets high marks for its realistic and "gritty" (the critics' favorite term) depiction of life in a maximum-security prison.
' " (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."
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.
The term has the advantage of avoiding mention of such gritty matters as arms shipments or coup plots, etc.--sort of like referring to death as a "health change."
Older locals — trawler men or dockworkers — might lament the loss of Leith’s gritty, “salt-of-the-earth” reputation, but the town has an air of excitement about it.