DIRTY in a Sentence

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For DIRTY, below is one of 170 sentences:
Aroused by his prurient impulses, the dirty old man leered at the sweet young thing and offered to give her a sample of his "prowess.".

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 Meanings and Examples of DIRTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dirty
 a.  expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
 v.  make soiled, filthy
Classic Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
1  The hospitals were filled with dirty, bewhiskered, verminous men who smelled terribly and bore on their bodies wounds hideous enough to turn a Christian's stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  War is a dirty business and I do not like dirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  She was looking at the dirty handkerchief, and humiliation and fury were filling her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  The state militia who had gone out so short a time before, resplendent in new uniforms, could hardly be distinguished from the seasoned troops, so dirty and unkempt were they.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  Draw water, serve food, lay pillows on the front porch, bind wounds, hold the dirty heads of the dying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  The skin of his pink fat face hung down in loose folds like the dewlaps of a bulldog and his long white hair was indescribably dirty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  Everywhere, swarms of flies hovered over the men, crawling and buzzing in their faces, everywhere was blood, dirty bandages, groans, screamed curses of pain as stretcher bearers lifted men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  They fell over the dirty face of a wounded man who feebly tried to turn his head to escape from their smothering folds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  There seemed thousands of them, bearded, dirty, their guns slung over their shoulders, swiftly passing at route step.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  Many were barefooted and here and there a dirty bandage wrapped a head or arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  She felt dirty and messy and sticky, almost as if she smelled bad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  There it lay in this stranger's calloused dirty palm and soon it would find its way North and onto the finger of some Yankee woman who would be proud to wear stolen things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
16  Even worse, they pour dirty water in to rivers.
17  Many people think that the race has been a dirty event for years.
18  A dirty face is not appropriate for the school photograph.
19  He instanced the fly as dirty insect.
20  Coaling a ship is a dirty job.
21  They came tramping through the kitchen leaving dirty footmarks.
22  Throw your dirty clothes in the washing machine.
23  He was a dirty player and loved to kick hell out of the opposition.
24  The walls were not white, but rather a sort of dirty grey.
25  I had to stick on that dirty place for several days more.
26  The Chinese respondents were quite well informed the three main routes of infection: unprotected sex, dirty needles, and mother-to-child transmission.
27  She pulled the plug out of the bathtub and the dirty water ran away.
28  He has opposed building dirty coal-fired power plants in pristine landscapes.
29  Aroused by his prurient impulses, the dirty old man leered at the sweet young thing and offered to give her a sample of his "prowess.".
30  I can still recall my repugnance when I was told that dirty story.