Sentence examples for grubby with from inspiring English sources

I like to get my hands grubby with the practicalities of military life as much as with the academic".

Photographed in grainy black and white, Epstein's high-relief sculptures are naked, grubby with London soot, ruined temporary plaster figures.

The first is that Conan Doyle's life has already been picked over by so many critics that the evidence has become grubby with their fingerprints.

The truth is that it is a rowdy hall of competing interests, driven by patronage and riven by personality, grubby with politics.

The cream body may get a bit grubby with time, but as the price point is so reasonable (it's made from polyurethane, not leather) you can afford to have some carefree fun with it this summer.

"I enjoy spending some time in the library, but I would never last as an ivory-tower academic … I like to get my hands grubby with the practicalities of military life as much as with the academic".

Perhaps he saw that as a grubby pact with a media devil he claims to disdain.

He even shared what sounded like a sparsely-furnished and grubby flat with Dylan Thomas.

Which seems a sure-fire way to have Fate (or possibly Irony) rubbing his grubby hands with glee.

Just weeks ago the magazine relaunched, substituting its traditional grubby newsprint with a glossy cover and a smaller size.

"We walked in and she was sitting on a grubby playmat with a dog's tail in her mouth.