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Sentence Examples The bed had a thick straw pallet for a mattress, and the sheets were threadbare and grubby, but they had slept on worse. Turning another corner, she reached the grubby brownstone building where she and her parents rented a small apartment. She gave me a grubby blanket and crouched down in front of the fire while I huddled and shivered. Compared to Watkins, Atlantis is a bit grubby and poorly lit and the place is stacked with arcane junk. Although slightly worn looking and grubby, they were a stark contrast to the appearance of the slaves they watched quietly shuffle past. Babbling brats would congregate near my truck, waving their miscounted sticky change in little grubby fists. By pointing the finger at Robin, a hired gun, she casts in a grubby light what had until now been seen as a tale of heroic political resistance. Our Anthony has a picture of Britain in his head that must on no account be sullied by contact with grubby reality. As grubby and alcoholic as a homunculus can be, he is also a kind, sensitive soul and a musician of some talent. It was slightly tatty around the edges, with grubby window frames and slapdash paintwork. Once more, Julia's endearingly grubby little hand hovered over the clasp of her tote. She was wearing tatty clothes and her grubby hands clutched dozens of plastic bags. He was at his friend's house getting high when he noticed the grubby living conditions and lack of personal hygiene. We no longer have to make do with the grubby white plastic garden furniture and collapsible click sun beds that were so popular a few years ago. I used to work with a grubby little farter who loved to drop one in elevators. Can you imagine having to recount the day you were found wearing grubby underwear or even worse, you were discovered going commando! A hand was extended to meet his grubby palm, he flinched at the sudden movement. And yet, armed with crafty pop hooks, scuzzy lo-fi folkiness and a grubby hat, that's exactly what he did. During the day shift, he sloshed around ankle-deep in dye, in a grubby old factory in America's Silk City, Paterson, New Jersey. We left the meeting exhausted, exhilarated, and dreaming of when we'd get our grubby, grabby mitts on some final code. Show More Sentences Out in the car park Damian wiped his grubby nose on an equally grimy handkerchief. Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls. But the wax has dripped all over the place, leaving some seats looking rather grubby. Where once there was a certain pride in grubby fingernails, now hard labour seems to be a dirty word. However, if your lounge has become grubby from an accumulation of different stains it should first be treated with talcum powder. Babies are, of course, far happier in a grubby jumpsuit covered in mud and drool than in a frilly dress festooned with ribbons. Instead, we could all walk around like we did in the 1970s, with dirty glasses and grubby faces, and be happy. The room has blank, unpainted walls, and a grubby green carpet covering the floor. You turn up a bit grubby, with a dusty old backpack, and they look rather alarmed. We are guided through a world where much is shabby and grubby, inhabited by characters who barely communicate with one another. How shocking, then, to see this once-magnificent interior reduced to a shabby, grubby mess. I was met at the door by a small, benign looking lady in a slightly grubby white coat. Shabby, grubby and stale, even visiting friends from other shared houses would wonder out loud how we could tolerate living there. For eleven months its grubby surface was covered by a makeshift blue wall, screening the leisurely metamorphosis behind. Frankly, with the new roof there to offer contrast, the slates looked pretty grubby. What does any of this all-consuming grubby affair have to do with the business of politics? Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death. Pragmatists, sensing a bottomless well of grubby dishonesty, have called for an amnesty, hoping to encourage names to be named. This week I want to look a little more at the process by which grubby politics is seamlessly transformed into dirty journalism. Every day was full of challenges, some gruelling, others just plain grubby. Show More Sentences My white socks grew grubby as the backs of my legs were japped with muddy water. He wore ragged trousers and a grubby torn shirt that was far too big for him and looked as though it was a type of tent. They are kids and kids are supposed to be grubby and a bit raggy round the edges. Those of you whose grubby mitts have not reached for this shiny golden nugget yet, why not? I also use a quick wipe of the Floral Skin Toner when my skin feels grubby. But, when it comes to selling a house, the grubby topic of money is all-important. I've spotted a grubby fingerprint on the window and I can't concentrate until I've zapped it with a bottle of Dettox and a damp cloth. He was clothed in a soiled tunic and long trousers that barely hid his bronzed feet and grubby toenails. Set in a depressing flat on a south London estate, teenager Luke rummages down the back of a grubby sofa in a fruitless search for something. That you are banned from the shops because you are a grubby, low-life thief. He had grubby trousers, work boots and a lumberjack shirt so he looked just like a workman. She even smiled when he tapped her on the shoulder and held a grubby newspaper cutting under her nose. Improvements in the technology behind its production mean that many papers are now more resistant to grubby marks and other damage. Don't just read a recipe book, read as many books as you can get your grubby paws on. Little grubby children rushed past her, pawing her dress, of which they had never seen such quality. Her outfit was a voluminous lace affair without shape or style, and I couldn't see her own shoes from the grubby train of her dress. These boys, contrary to early claims made by grubby politicians, were not guilty of misbehaviour of any kind. And possibly most importantly, I can have that last piece of Chocolate cake before he gets his grubby little mitts on it. They're trying to get their grubby mitts on our big cars and mansions in Pondok Indah and Bintaro. Writing about his own visit to southern Italy, he dwells mournfully on grubby children and cackling poultry. Show More Sentences Surely the Boat Race is too important an event to let commercial riff raff like ITV get their grubby mitts on it, she demurred. The offender is described by police as grubby and tatty looking, with a very strong smell of body odour. It was a grubby, grotty, sleazy, cruisy dive, but it had atmosphere, and we all loved it despite ourselves. Harriet slouched until she was almost hunchbacked, wearing boy's clothes, unironed and grubby. The town nameplate sign on the road to the Community School also appeared quite grubby. About 50 years ago they got so unroyally grubby that abbey authorities would not permit even antiquarians to see them. We are approached, then pursued, by a small posse of grubby, half-naked street urchins. He noticed a grubby little package wrapped up in brown paper lying on the floor. Want to stop boosters from getting their greasy, grubby paws on the game? Who knows, I might even wash the car, which is looking decidedly grubby. Our God is not a remote being who sits enthroned on some ethereal height, absorbed in the contemplation of his own perfection, oblivious to this grubby realm in which we live. The grubby Kruzaeb and tortoise-like Vurthal-Aran were respected and very intelligent races, but they had absolutely no use in a battle situation. He explained how life on the march was pretty grubby and smelly. This is a world that, despite its cheap furniture, dingy apartments and grubby walls hung with fading pictures, is still full of desires and ideals. She shoved it into his hand, a thick parcel of grubby rags and oilcloth. So we walked into the onsen in grubby clothes, covered in sand sun burnt and grimy and walked out scrubbed clean looking like summer messages of gentle womanhood. Mr Hewitt recalls that family members who came to wave them off had to pay a penny each for a platform ticket and said York station in those days was very dingy and grubby. She was wearing a rather grubby and patched brown dress and was barefoot. He had done nothing in his grubby and unenterprising life but walk in his father's shadow, and it was soon to be made clear that this trend was not about to change. First impressions are everything in the flirting game and a well-groomed man holds more appeal than one with grubby fingernails and scruffy clothes. Show More Sentences He had seen grubby, cantankerous men reduced to pitiableness by slighter but nevertheless relentless syndromes, the same shovelled out eye-sockets. There is a very unglamorous fridge, stuffed with browning apples, cheap champagne and bottles of Evian water, a box of tissues and seven rather grubby spoons. Within an hour, grubby tugs pushing heavily laden lighters are battling upstream towards banks lined with the darkest, most satanic-looking towns I'd ever seen. Love is marred by the grubby ring he left round the bath, the dirty pants on the bedroom floor, the washing you asked him to hang out left screwed up in the washing machine. Childhood memories of mother are of her slumped on her canvas stool, painting, her face level with mine, porcelain skin shadowed by a floppy hat trailing grubby pink scarves. Through the darkness I could make out a modest, tan coloured house with an overgrown garden and grubby looking shudders drooping from the windows. But Paltrow and Lively insist on deep meaning besides the grubby business of trade. Perfume bottles and weathered papyrus replicas gather dust in the grubby window displays of the empty shops. His friend to the north, Paul Kagame, is another authoritarian with grubby hands, feted nonetheless. Before the envelope containing salacious details makes it into the grubby hands of the media, tell everything. Each of them was actually owned by more than 25,000 member banks, and one hand washed the grubby hand of the other. Yes they are a bit grubby at times but that was my only concern. The audience is made to feel like a bunch of Peeping Toms, leering grimly through the upturned collars of their grubby macs into the love lives of the rich and famous. I have been given to understand that a proper management plan will be put in place and that the grubby, uncared-for appearance will shortly be a thing of the past. We were in stitches at the idea of him suddenly recognising in horror that the grubby waif loitering around Grand Central for a cheap meal was actually his petite cousin. Just at that moment a middle-aged man in a colourful padded car coat and grubby trainers appeared on the other side of the road and momentarily eyed us suspiciously. He may well be as thick as two short planks and show a reckless disregard for the facts, but he's also a grubby opportunist who thrives on the misery of others. Not only did he gleefully garotte anyone who dared get in the way of his grubby little operation, he even killed The Elephant Man. It was clad in white in the manner of an Indian sadu or holy man, and it was walking barefoot on the grubby pavements. He was clad in a shabby khaki-drill suit and grubby panama and sandshoes, and wore neither socks nor shirt, and was unshaven. Show More Sentences And grubby clothes can be laundered with reusable laundry balls in place of powder. Permanently stuck to you, like a grubby lump of chewing gum, or a clingy toddler when it's time for beddy-byes. Always sticking to you, like a grubby lump of chewing gum, or a clingy toddler, when it's time for beddy-byes. Harris-Moore was wearing a bullet-proof jacket over a grubby, short-sleeved tee-shirt and well-worn camouflage cargo shorts. He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream. Different Angle is a grubby, neurotic, more agreeable cousin of The Killers' Mr Brightside, while Burning For No One is an off-kilter kiss-off to an old love. Ever since their creation the Daleks have been attempting to conquer and enslave as much of the universe as they could get their grubby little protuberances on. Examples from Classical Literature I mean to land up in Minsk, working in a grubby little factory is quite a comedown. They made their way through a swarm of grubby children, and entered the porch. The enemy soon appeared, rather grubby, in a tarboosh and a scrubby European overcoat. Despite wanting to get back home, a grubby looking bear and a huge, and creepy looking, doll called Big Baby have other plans for the toys. The cleaner-by-the-day will do the grubby things and I shall like it. And the boy had scrambled to his feet to extend a grubby paw. Likewise, as it''''s very exposed it wouldn''''t take long for it to look grubby again if we painted it. Likewise, as it's very exposed it wouldn't take long for it to look grubby again if we painted it. A grubby boy, probably with a squint, would almost certainly get on your nerves. I feel more than a little grubby, and we can have our breakfast in the cooling gallery. From the miserable camp pup he glanced at the grubby face of Jamie. This shocking act plays into the grubby hands of pest exterminator Archibald plays into the grubby hands of Snatcher. Likewise, as it''s very exposed it wouldn''t take long for it to look grubby again if we painted it. He turns his crooked latchkey, Pushes open the grubby flat door, These days living quietly all alone No one wants to know him anymore. The tears that flowed down his grubby cheeks were real tears. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of grubby? Words that rhyme with grubby What is the plural of grubby? What is the adverb for grubby? What is the adjective for grubby? What is the noun for grubby? Translations for grubby Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Grubbs grubbing grubbiness grubbiest grubbier grubber grubs grubstake grudge grudged grudges grudging 6-letter Words Starting With g gr gru grub grubb