Sentence examples for grit on from inspiring English sources

Resisting fashion-plate glamour on the one hand and journalistic grit on the other, Eggleston brings an ethically neutral, incurably curious aesthetic to everything he sees – the "democratic way of looking around" alluded to by the retrospective's title.

Add another 2 x 4-inch (5.08 x 10.16 cm) grit on the side level with the one you placed against the bottom of the stringer at the back.

The secondhand clothes that he sells, the worn-out coats for a dollar or two, are not ironic or kitschy, like the ones in Williamsburg's thrift shops, and the grit on the sidewalk is not a charming kind of grit.

There was a layer of grit on him".

There was stage smoke and glitter grit on the runway.

But it's far from the only example of Aussie country-town grit on Siddle's CV.

On this day, he left his true grit on the field.

I could still taste the grit on my teeth, but I could actually talk and breathe.

Wipe away a layer of grit on the dome, give it a shake and you're back around 1983.

It was an amazing show of internal grit on behalf of women competing in a sport where feminine grace rules.

I've tried putting grit on top of the compost, washing the leaves and spraying with a soap solution.