Sentence examples for have been dirty from inspiring English sources

"It might have been dirty, but it was vibrant.

It may not have been dirty, but it was my little secret.

Yes, it would have been very hot (although it's a dry heat) and it would, in places, have been dirty and ultra-chaotic, but it would also have been friendly and welcoming.

Some of them have been "dirty food" joints like Meat Liquor or Pitt Cue; others, a little more sophisticated, like the Venetian-themed bistros of Russell Norman's Polpo group.

The head of the Greek charity that has custody of Maria reported that she was "dirty" and "terrified": that she may have been dirty because of the appalling conditions in which many Roma are forced to live by poverty and terrified at being removed from her family was not noted.

The streets around Fourth Avenue, though, have been dirty for 40 years, and its graciousness resides in going on, in managing to get along and in not giving in to despair, despair being the route along which the gates are always open.

His fingernails have been dirtied.

The smoke from the Bunsen burner must have been dirtying the test tube and thereby slowing the reaction.

The trunks have turned dark in areas of industrial development because the lichens have been killed by pollutants and the trunks have been dirtied by soot.

There may have been dirtier campaigns than this one, but not in my memory.... Something evil has either happened to us, or been revealed about us in the passions of this strange election.

When asked, "If Carol had taken her dirty shoes off, would the floor be clean or dirty?" adolescents and adults agreed that the floor would be "dirty"; it would have been dirtied by Max.