Sentence examples for grubby things from inspiring English sources

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He wrote about grubby things in a high, almost dandified style, as if he were Simon Schama reporting from a Dumpster.

Terence dug through the kid's trash, grabbed the toys, and ended up playing with the grubby things all night long, only to blow them to smithereens with an M80 in the morning.

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That's the little armadillo-shelled, grubby thing (technically a land-dwelling crustacean) that curls into itself when threatened.

"These grubby little things eventually became lords of the manor in this smart binding".

It must be wonderful to be David Cameron, gliding through a life of such privilege he has no concept of how grubby most things are.

"It is so exciting to be on this literary trail with you," said Maud, "especially as you aren't interested in the grubby sex thing".

It was a much grubbier affair than that.

A grubby election could worsen things in neighbouring Sudan, where civil war threatens to recur.

Generally, "House of Cards" gets so many things right — the grubby alliance of money and politics, staffers who see everything in terms of numbers, the blatant horse-trading — than I am surprised that the journalism stuff seems to miss the mark.

Filled with joyless people in drab rooms (Josh Silfen's grubby cinematography doesn't make things any cheerier), "Silver Tongues" takes a novel idea and uses it to jerk us around.

The last big mystery to solve is which carrier will be getting their grubby little mitts on the thing next.

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