Sentence examples for bits of grit from inspiring English sources

I sit up and start                    To notice small bits          Of grit when I run my hand overMy chest.

Mussels in coconut curry, served with shrimp toast, were agreeably spiced, though the mussels contained bits of grit and were less than plump.

As they hunch by the lifts, gouging irritants and bits of grit out of the elevator door tracks, all the lawyers and accountants simply step over them and look through them, schooled in the taboos of the unacknowledged caste system.

(She's constantly flicking her handkerchief at stray bits of grit; in the first act, she wears light-colored, easily sullied clothing — reminiscent of Lana Turner's in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" — and one gets the sense it's so that she can feel even more contempt for her surroundings).

A bit of grit wouldn't go amiss.

Large, plump clams on the half shell were marred by a bit of grit.

We showed a bit of grit, kept them out so that bodes well.

She's small in stature, but she's got a bit of grit about her.

Is that a bit of grit in my eye, or am I crying?

That tiny bit of grit gives Ballers just enough necessary roughness to make it more than just the endzone Entourage.

You need someone with a bit of grit and determination and we know he has got that.