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The phrase "dirty up" is a colloquial expression and may not be considered grammatically correct in formal written English.
However, it can be used in informal or conversational writing. Example: "Please don't dirty up your room before the guests arrive."
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Freetown, while topographically stunning, is overcrowded and dirty up close.
Now, in two new studies, researchers have proposed a way to "dirty up" these mice, though some worry that the work could compromise future studies.
You've got to dirty up the oven".
"I'm going to dirty up your couch tonight".
"It's just an attempt to dirty up the mayor before an indictment comes down," Mr. Martir said.
It lashed out at media coverage "trying to dirty up Whitney's name" and adamantly touted her marriage and her man.
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Antonia, meanwhile, is baffled by the younger generation's obsession with organic produce and environmental cleanliness, "this determination not to dirty up the world or be dirtied up by it".
"There's a case for dirtying up your diet," Sonnenburg told me.
But the studios are invested in that star, they can't have that person's name dirtied up.
A less polite director than Tate Taylor might have dirtied up the film-making to match; still, the music gives this one life and reason.
This necessitated the removal of all the van's contents – which had been dirtied up for artistic reasons – to be "deep-cleaned, and then made filthy again".
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