DIRT in a Sentence

Learn DIRT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

73 example sentences for DIRT, such as:

1. Break up these large lumps of dirt.
2. The jeep bumped along the dirt track.
3. The road petered out into a dirt track.
4. A newspaper, folded up, lay in the dirt.
5. Alarmed at the first sound, we hit the dirt.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIRT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dirt
 n.  a substance, such as mud or dust, that soils someone or something
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  War is a dirty business and I do not like dirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  Her lavender calico dress, so freshly clean and starched that morning, was streaked with blood, dirt and sweat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  This, then, was what Ashley had meant when he wrote that war was not glory but dirt and misery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  Hardly waiting to rub the dirt off on her skirt, she bit off half and swallowed it hastily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  No sooner had the lump gone down than her empty outraged stomach revolted and she lay in the soft dirt and vomited tiredly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  The floor was covered with muddy sawdust and everywhere was dust and dirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  He said I could sublease them for next to nothing and feed them dirt cheap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  You've lived in dirt too long to know anything else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
10  Besides, she was going to give me a pair of trousers, which I should not put on unless I got all the dirt off me.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  The latter with calm faith began a heavy explanation, although he had been compelled to leave a little protection of stones and dirt to which he had devoted much care and skill.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  A newspaper, folded up, lay in the dirt.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  The youth leaned his breast against the brown dirt and peered over at the woods and up and down the line.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  A few idle flags were perched on the dirt hills.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  They surpassed in stain and dirt all their previous appearances.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  He showered quickly, rinsing away the dirt of the journey.
2  The road petered out into a dirt track.
3  The road leading to the farm was little more than a dirt track.
4  We drove up a narrow dirt track to their house.
5  The jeep bumped along the dirt track.
6  Filter out all the dirt before using the water.
7  Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk.
8  The problem with white is that it soon shows the dirt.
9  The worker quickly cleared away the dirt that was choking up the chimney.
10  Break up these large lumps of dirt.
11  The dirt on the bottom of the bath didn't encourage total immersion.
12  Alarmed at the first sound, we hit the dirt.
13  Bull-dozers piled up huge mounds of dirt.
14  This new kitchen cleaner is formulated to cut through grease and dirt.
15  Such cheap goods obviously rely on dirt cheap labor.