Sentence examples for grubby as from inspiring English sources

I also have the idea that he was as grubby as I usually was.

Billymark's West is as grubby as the Golem and, in New York bar years, almost as old.

Here lay the heartland of East German industry, grubby as the brown coal dragged from its soil.

He had a provincial lack of interest in politics; the world would be saved through cultivation and the arts, not through anything as grubby as direct social change.

The toy's creator Ken Forsse also wrote an accompanying Tolkien-esque fantasy world, following Teddy and his best friend, a caterpillar named Grubby, as they battled monsters and villains in the quest to find magic crystals.

Rather, he is exploiting the specific visual textures of digital video, creating images as grubby as those from a building surveillance camera and as cruelly hyper-real as a Chuck Close portrait.

There's grubby scenes as well.

But they concede that the party is a risky step for a movement that drew on middle-class disgust with grubby politics-as-normal.Complicating this combustible mix is an upsurge in violence in Thailand's Muslim-dominated far south, where a mosque shooting on June 8th has triggered a bloody round of sectarian, tit-for-tat killings.

But Mr. Peacock has well water, and with not enough power for the pump, his family grew not just colder but grubbier as the week progressed.

Yet in recent years graduates have rarely aspired to such a grubby job as teaching.

"It [capitalism] is not a dirty, grubby pastime, as some would have us believe," he says.