FILTH in a Sentence

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One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth.

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 Meanings and Examples of FILTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
filth
 n.  foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; corruption; pollution
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  He uttered coarse speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack of astonishment which was elegant.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT
2  One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
3  It was a heap of filth and it was Sinai.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
4  The mass of filth has this in its favor, that it is not a liar.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
5  It did not know how to manage its own affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any better than it could abuses.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU
6  At times, that stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU
7  The reader knows, that by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
8  It had the worst reputation of any spot in or near Atlanta, for here lived in filth outcast negroes, black prostitutes and a scattering of poor whites of the lowest order.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  This was a fearful experience, with filth and bad food and cruelty and overwork; but Jurgis stood it and came out in fine trim, and with eighty rubles sewed up in his coat.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  One long arm of it is blind, and the filth stays there forever and a day.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  Our friend had caught now and then a whiff from the sewers over which he lived, but this was the first time that he had ever been splashed by their filth.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  You would have enjoyed it if you could have seen him standing there all bespattered with blood and filth, and looking just like a lion.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIII
13  The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
14  Like a beast in its lair his soul had lain down in its own filth but the blasts of the angel's trumpet had driven him forth from the darkness of sin into the light.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  His hat had rolled a few yards away and his clothes were smeared with the filth and ooze of the floor on which he had lain, face downwards.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
Example Sentence:
1  Go and wash that filth off your hand.