Sentence examples for grubby marks from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

Erich von Stroheim, who scuffled through grubby times in New York before finding his way into movies, was marked by the experience as well, and channelled his bitter view of working life into his last film as a director, "Hello, Sister!" (YouTube, iTunes, and Google Play), from 1933, adapted from a play by Dawn Powell that he had personally acquired.

But when these strange men in dungarees read poetry to unmuted jazz, or steal cars and drive to Denver, or just "burn, burn, burn, like a fabulous yellow roman candle" it is with a vigor which marks the rest of us as dead, a bad penny vitality and a grubby crucifixion which make lectures and Haze-Bick existentialism seem extremely square.

A statue of a horse is half-covered by a grubby plastic sheet.The fact that thousands of Argentines take to the streets of Buenos Aires every March 24th to mark El Día de la Memoria (Memory Day) indicates that the determination to remember Latin America's violent history is not diminishing.