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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:

An article chronicles the entwined histories of the rival New York Daily News and New York Post , which are as colorful, scandalous, and gritty as the tabloids' front pages.
Two other docs are worth your attention this week: The Learning Channel's gritty Inside the White House Press Corps (Monday, 9 p.m.); and "RFK vs.
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.
It was the sort of apartment he could have lived in, if he'd wanted to, but he chose to make his home in the gritty industrial area of TriBeCa.
Reviewers share the author's view that these auteurs--including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, William Friedkin, and Paul Schrader--reinvented American cinema with their gritty dramas but arrogantly overindulged in drugs and sex.