Sentence examples for scattered dirt from inspiring English sources

So do Expressionistic whimsies by George Condo, Verne Dawson, Robert Williams, and Aurel Schmidt, in my favorite of the show's rooms, which also features a wonderful sculpture by Huma Bhabha: vestigial mask faces in gouged and blackened Styrofoam and clay-slathered wire mesh atop a charcoal-graffitied plywood box, with metal and wooden detritus and scattered dirt.

I looked at the plant, the scattered dirt, the shards of the pot.

The diamond at home plate is often covered with scattered dirt, as the umpire methodically sweeps it clean.

But the cypress tore itself out of the earth by the roots, scattering dirt in all directions, and began to follow me.

They had not yet dug up the roadbeds entirely, scattering the dirt across the paddy fields, as they had through much of the lower Delta, but they would get around to it if they were not stopped.

They had taken pains, when they were digging it, to scatter the dirt they removed as widely as possible, to conceal the excavation, and there was of course no way to reverse that process.

This conviction is what leads her to perform the galvanizing action of the play: under cover of night she goes to the desolate place where Polyneices' body lies out in the open and performs a token burial, scattering some dirt on the body.

Use clean, flexible straw so that it doesn't scatter more dirt when you use it, or scratch polished hardwood floors.

Pots and bones lay scattered in the dirt.

Investigators found Byrd's personal items scattered along the dirt trail and pavement.

I've come home to find a Brazil nut in the middle of the bathroom floor, or more often just dirt scattered across my desk and a half-buried acorn in my potted ficus.