Sentence examples similar to grubby 1 from inspiring English sources

WHEN Britain, in 1983, introduced a solid, gold-looking coin to replace its grubby £1 notes, it was promptly christened a thatcher.

10.51pm BST This is shaping up to be a grubby 90 minutes.

One day a guy in overalls walked into our Soho office and counted out 25 grubby £5 notes, thanked us for producing the paper and left.

Right now, he's probably grabbing his crotch and shaking his free fist in celebration - just as he did during his grubby 70s and 80s pomp.

The Bernabéu stands imposingly alongside businesses on the Paseo de la Castellana, the Calderón is locked in by the grubby M30 motorway, which runs right under the stand.

In The Secret Map of Hollywood (BBC1) Ross was at his understated best, teasing out stories of mayhem, murder and cut-out bras in a grubby 45 minutes that I'm delighted to see is the first of six.

The book's eponymous antihero, a grubby 11-year-old boy, builds a business empire by wheeling and dealing in penny stocks and bonds from the pay phone at his middle school.

The tension, as they say, mounts: not all locals are on side; perennial apocalyptic rumours surrounding a nearby offshore bio-research facility are revived; and the arrival of Mills, a grubby 19-year-old Californian drifter and former foster kid with a presumed history of being the wayward sort, sends neighbourhood antennae into full twitch.

"This grubby 21-year-old kid completely understood that there had to be a human aspect and personality to the product," he says.

The Mickey Mouse banknotes they use don't even have serial numbers!" Jouan pulled out a grubby 50 gourde note and poked his finger into it time and again.

Sara Robin York Bolton Museum may well be underfunded and possibly grubby (Letters, 25 July).