Example sentences for: grungy

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

  • As she went on and on about $12,000 bottles of 1870 wine (actually, I'd kind of like to try one) and a Park Avenue apartment building where the grungy units start at $4 million (why anyone would want to live on a street where your furniture shifts whenever the commuter trains rumble beneath is beyond me), she cleverly pointed out the analogies with the '80s economic bubble and the dot-com one ...

  • Small craft take you from the ferries to the beach at Bangsal or to the Gilli Islands, avoiding the grungy port at Lembar, and introducing you immediately to the more idyllic parts of Lombok.

  • Borrowing a political-advertising technique (a shot of a television, with the opponent's spot playing, as a sign that we're being manipulated, that what we're seeing isn't real), it takes us into a grungy living room, where two unbuffed slobs respond to the Jooky commercial just ending on their TV set.

  • Both also have had privileged political careers, floating into the Senate on celebrity or lineage, and both seem better suited to being selected by boards of admiring elders than to the grungy business of running for office.

  • The riverside quay, the Cais da Ribeira, is an intriguing and slightly grungy area popular with tourists and diners.


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