Sentence examples for had been filthy from inspiring English sources
In the four months she was in the hospital before she died, her family said the ward had been filthy and she had often been left in her own faeces and urine, her dignity taken away from her.
"To be honest, two years ago I would've been filthy back at home or at training," he said.
Real animals could be seen in the city's zoo, which seems to have been filthy beyond belief, and its world's fairs transplanted entire villages, and their inhabitants, from Senegal or Madagascar and put them on public view.
Nearly half of the principals in the district responded to a survey by the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association and said that ever since the school district awarded $340 million in two custodial management contracts in February to private concerns, their schools have been filthy, according to Catalyst Chicago.
The election had been as filthy as presidential elections are ever likely to get.
Hunts Point Riverside Park, a 1.4-acre speck in the South Bronx, opened a few years ago on what had been a filthy, weedy street end.
The ceiling had been so filthy that, when it was finally cleaned, they uncovered a bas-relief of the Columbia seal, surrounded on both sides by the Manhattan skyline.
They had been told they were filthy so many times that they had internalized the sentiment.
In Hebden Bridge in Calderdale, volunteers spent the day clearing out schools, shops and homes that had been overwhelmed by filthy floodwater – a scene repeated in scores of towns and cities across the region.
Another was the condition of the vessels: they were filthy — they had been crawling with rats when captured — and generally unreliable.
