DIRTY in a Sentence

Learn DIRTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
170 example sentences for DIRTY, such as:
1. Wash your dirty linen at home.
2. Do not wash dirty linen in public.
3. I wish he wouldn't tell dirty jokes.
4. Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
5. Try not to dirty your new white shirt.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DIRTY
dirty
 a.  expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
 v.  make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Classic Sentence: (138 in 10 pages)
1  The hospitals were filled with dirty, bewhiskered, verminous men who smelled terribly and bore on their bodies wounds hideous enough to turn a Christian's stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  War is a dirty business and I do not like dirt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  She was looking at the dirty handkerchief, and humiliation and fury were filling her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  And they were new, not ragged, with dirty bare flesh and hairy legs showing through.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  The state militia who had gone out so short a time before, resplendent in new uniforms, could hardly be distinguished from the seasoned troops, so dirty and unkempt were they.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  Draw water, serve food, lay pillows on the front porch, bind wounds, hold the dirty heads of the dying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  The skin of his pink fat face hung down in loose folds like the dewlaps of a bulldog and his long white hair was indescribably dirty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  Everywhere, swarms of flies hovered over the men, crawling and buzzing in their faces, everywhere was blood, dirty bandages, groans, screamed curses of pain as stretcher bearers lifted men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  They fell over the dirty face of a wounded man who feebly tried to turn his head to escape from their smothering folds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  There seemed thousands of them, bearded, dirty, their guns slung over their shoulders, swiftly passing at route step.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  Many were barefooted and here and there a dirty bandage wrapped a head or arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  She felt dirty and messy and sticky, almost as if she smelled bad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  There it lay in this stranger's calloused dirty palm and soon it would find its way North and onto the finger of some Yankee woman who would be proud to wear stolen things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Wash your dirty linen at home.
2  He claimed he was the victim of a dirty tricks campaign.
3  Don't throw out your dirty water before you get in fresh.
4  Try not to dirty your new white shirt.
5  She rubbed out those dirty marks on her white skirt.
6  I wish he wouldn't tell dirty jokes.
7  You shouldn't write such obscene things to humour their dirty interests.
8  A clear fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
9  The party chairman accused the opposition of dirty tricks in their election campaign.
10  He pulled a dirty handkerchief out by its corner and waved it at me.
11  Leftover food and unwashed dishes cover the dirty counters.
12  He got the credit, and we did the dirty work.
13  Do not wash dirty linen in public.
14  The neck of a shirt gets dirty easily.
15  Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.