Sentence examples for grubby mark from inspiring English sources

The poems, as in "The Dream House", trace "Each loving grubby mark" that makes a home and tells a story.

Parrots have always been very popular in the caged-bird trade and this has left its grubby mark upon many species, causing their numbers to dwindle.

If you steer clear of clichés, posters are fab for hiding grubby marks on walls left by previous tenants while reflecting your own tastes and making the room feel 'yours'yours

Make sure your hands are relatively clean before you do it, as grubby marks can make it look a bit odd!

The clever set by Ola Maslik is made predominantly of corrugated tin, marked out with grubby living spaces, including a toilet surrounded by girlie magazines.

When I'm with my kid I'm in leggings and a jumper and a pair of Converse because the grubby little hands are going to mark anything nice".

The London she moved through was – it was suggested – both a physical and a moral maze, a warren of squalid streets marked by odd visions: a grubby angel with swan's wings on his back, a crow-headed figure, a dying horse down on the cobbles.

The Groucho Club has also marked its anniversary by upgrading its famously grubby bedrooms.

The most common option is simply to carry your greasy, sometimes grubby machine into a hallway and repaint the scuff marks on the wall once in a while.

When it opened last summer, word had it that you had to enter the taquería, push past a door marked "employees only," and walk down a grubby stairway to face the icy hostess, who, if she liked the look of you, would divulge an unlisted phone number that you could then, returning upstairs, dial in order to request a table.

A century ago, when pursuit of the Almighty Dollar was the great, grubby obsession of the masses, indifference to money was considered a mark of distinction -- because it was an indifference that only those who already had lots of money could plausibly profess.