How To Use Grimy In A Sentence

A dirty orange glow escapes from half-open hatches, grilled vents, and small square windows of grimy glass, and the clangour of beaten metal can be heard far out into the endless snowstorm. Weapon Of Choice short story – excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam. COMPULSION
The flats tower above you - there are perhaps twenty five floors in the building, which looks grimy and worn.
The cookers would be in a really dirty and grimy condition. The Sun
He pulled a grimy handkerchief from his pocket and let fly with a wet honk into the rag, then he looked at them with bleary eyes.

That points to the likelihood that grimy hands had affected the silvering, either before or after it was applied.
The men were all very grimy, and their weariness showed in their filthy faces.
Drawing nearer we peeped with fascinated horror through the grimy, unwashed windows at the interior still life.
By twisting her body and bracing her legs to counteract the momentum, she barely managed to prevent herself from falling face-first onto the hard, grimy pavement.
The city centre has been spruced up in recent years, although to look at the grimy exteriors you wouldn't know it.
Instead I was confronted with a grimy-looking building with billboards covering the windows and obscuring the interior.
Ancient dust and grimy spiderwebs festooned her coverall.
This, not very popular, livery continued for some time, but the buses began to look very grimy and in the late 1970s a variation of the former tram livery of predominantly green with cream relief was introduced.
There was Marco in grimy apron plating up, or opening scallops, looking every inch the piratical hero, with his long black hair and sunken eyes and high cheek bones, surrendered long ago to his new-found affluence.
In lieu of buckles at his knees, he wore unequal loops of packthread; and in his grimy hands he held a knotted stick, the knob of which was carved into a rough likeness of his own vile face. Barnaby Rudge
Grimy wards, with paint peeling, dust gathering on windowsills and numerous unidentified stains, frighten patients and demoralise staff.
The cookers would be in a really dirty and grimy condition. The Sun
During their imprisonment the couple, who claim they are innocent, were split up and put in grimy concrete cells.
Tucked in a bazaar along a grimy street, he keeps a shop about the size of a toolshed.
Grimy, gap-toothed men on donkey carts scavenge the rusting military trucks.
Gone are the grimy beats, the sarcastic vocals and nonsensical lyricism, replaced by inspiring rhythms and lyrics laced with celebration and regret.
Its bed and estuary scoured and sunken, was now a canal of sea water and a race of grimy bargemen brought the heavy materials of trade from the Pool thereby beneath the very feet of the workers. When the Sleeper Wakes
Behind his head, a grimy window overlooking Somerville's Main Street seemed to glower with derision. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
He was wearing deerskin clothes that looked pretty grimy and he didn't smell pretty with the grease and whisky and dead animal stinks coming off him.
Returning from his grimy hours of manual labour, he dives into a hotel to wash away the dirt, emerging clean and immaculate in a fresh suit and tie.
But whereas they were once crisp, motes of dust and household lint had now settled leaving the surface grimy.
Only the grimy streets and the hollow shell of his mother's home remain.
The card showed a 19th century photograph of a young boy, no more than eight, stoking the furnace in a grimy workshop, surrounded by men beavering away along a production line.
And if I had been an impecunious younger son of the gentry, or a farmer struggling to survive an agricultural depression, or a soldier discharged from the army with little prospect of finding a good job, or a poorly paid artisan in a grimy and unsanitary city, I might well have decided to take the risk and opt for the bright, prosperous future and healthful climate that Poyais appeared to offer the adventurous. A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was
Add to that the fact that he never washed up and left bits of old takeaways lying around and you can get a good idea of how grimy this place was!
Between them was a low table, grimy with years of served meals of soba, snapper or sushi.
Isn't the grimy reality of the rock'n'roll life a bit uncouth for such an exotic woman? Times, Sunday Times
Grimy, unshaved, and dishevelled as I was, I accompanied him.
They have a low, vaulted ceiling and damp, grimy walls which run with water when it rains.
The cramped room was dark and gloomy, a faint stream of gentle light streaming through the grimy window.
Isn't the grimy reality of the rock'n'roll life a bit uncouth for such an exotic woman? Times, Sunday Times
Nirvana was able to seek refuge in two camps, with one foot tenuously dipped in the waters of grunge, and one grimy boot firmly set in the world of punk rock.
Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces. A History of American Christianity
As he spoke a cab appeared, a grimy little robot jitney with the other Twin in the back.
The story goes that Andrew B Graves, a member of the Sheffield Scientific School Class of 1892, came upon a grimy bulldog in a New Haven blacksmith shop during his freshman year.
It's as though a grimy pall has been lifted off the city and a Bohemian spirit has returned once more to Bohemia.
I sipped a glass of candied champagne, and peered out a grimy window at the periphery of the eastern seaboard. In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
Some are ragged drifters, but most disturbing is the sight of entire families - a haggard and exhausted father and mother, accompanied by a bevy of grimy children - sprawled around a campfire of twigs.
And the next morning it opened with a mighty clatter, and was a dirty little beerhouse that stank of beer, and there was a fat and grimy landlord with red spots upon his neck, and much noisy traffic going by on the cobbles outside. In the Days of the Comet
To a man, they are all grimly grimy, stringy filthy hair on their heads and drooping from the bloody, flyblown scalps tied to their saddles, matted beards, funny hats and all. Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
Oh," she would say, in weary complaint, "I just took it to break a wheen coals;" and he would find it in the coal-hole, greasy and grimy finger-marks engrained on the handle which he loved to keep so smooth and clean. The House with the Green Shutters
I've been living here since 1996 and have come a long way from the grimy flat I shared with my best mate B. years ago.
Titian, which is dark and grimy, is quite pleasing, the infant Christ, who stands between S. Andrew and S. Catherine on a little pedestal, being very real and Venetian. A Wanderer in Venice
Books open with torn pages bestrewed the floor; other books lay about grimy and black, looking as if they had never been opened. Almayer's Folly
The young woman took a clean cloth from a small pile of linen and dipped it into the grimy water.
This one is more up his street - dirty, grimy. The Sun
Fancy scratched at her blood-caked inner elbows, feeling grimy and itchy all over. Slice Of Cherry
He was dressed in grimy black clothes and it must have been months since he had shaved or showered.
The Tinker has now set on his grimy gluepot, and the glue simmers. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies. Nineteen Eighty-Four
The cookers would be in a really dirty and grimy condition. The Sun
All her life had been spent surrounded by grimy bricks with hardly a green grass blade in sight.
Outside the grimy windows of the decrepit lounge that serves as a Cabinet office the autumn sunlight filtered through the leaves of the plane trees.
The juxtaposition of pristine glass structures and the grimy creatures crawling at their feet makes for an interesting visual contrast.
The past, and all its grimy secrets, would be footnotes in a book of victories. GALILEE
Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
There is Pittsburgh, of grimy repute, recently named the most livable U.S. city.
Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
I was beginning to sweat by the time I passed the grimy monolith of Salford Tech. KICK BACK
Barmy as it sounds, this amazing gizmo performs miracles on dirty windows, grimy shower screens and greasy mirrors. The Sun
What started as a pristine white shirt on Thursday morning was now really grimy.
Their streets were grimy and gritty, awash in alcohol and laced with drugs.
A minute or two later, three grimy, uncouth-looking men came into the hall, whom Mavis took to be gasmen. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl
Her sense of suffocation is intensified by her grimy surroundings Alaska's natural glories go undescribed by Mr. Vann—they're always blocked by fog and by the conviction that her daughter, Rhoda, is repeating her mistake. Icy State Of Affairs
Grimy and unshaven, he grinned gaptoothed, and returned the gesture.
But the grimy old city centre of not too long ago has now become one of Britain's most fashionable places to live. Times, Sunday Times
The other location was York Street, a grimy thoroughfare running between Argyle Street and the river.
They wanted to shoot a car chase in a rundown alley but could not find anywhere sufficiently grimy and derelict.
In Hong Kong, the management suite moved from the tony Central district to a grimy industrial estate.
A weak, forced smile crossed the bruised and grimy face, " Hey.
When we got to the Reyes compound in Tlachichuca, it was almost 9 pm and we were grimy from a day spent wading through Mexico's rural bus system. Mexico mountaineering expedition on Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltepetl)
A low-ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and metallic stew and dirty clothes. Nineteen Eighty-Four
Upon discovering it was empty the group moved on, passing portraits and tapestries far too grimy to be determinable.
The story of victory of Jamal in grimy settings touches the basest emotions in man. Sold to the basest emotions
If you just witter vaguely about a dust-round and tidy-up, you've only yourself to blame if you come home to a grimy cooker.
They slither about on the grimy tiles of the orphanage floor. Times, Sunday Times
This tall, narrow 13-by - 4-foot drawing scrolls from ceiling to floor, where it curls slightly, and is held in place by a slurry of grimy studio sweepings.
What started as a pristine white shirt on Thursday morning was now really grimy.
The city centre has been spruced up in recent years, although to look at the grimy exteriors you wouldn't know it.
Returning from his grimy hours of manual labour, he dives into a hotel to wash away the dirt, emerging clean and immaculate in a fresh suit and tie.
There's also an outdoor pool but it looked rather unappealing - cold and a bit grimy. Times, Sunday Times
I found the film's fractured chronology, grimy miserablism, and Cotillard's ferrety frenzy nerve-wracking, with no compensating grace notes to offset the squalor and syringes. Little Sparrow, Big Thirst: James Wolcott
Worse still, the sense of sameness that pervades the look of the film – pasty-faced agents and snarling gangsters, dozens of murky rooms and grimy exteriors, too many of the same characters in repetitive dialogue – keeps it from building momentum or establishing a rhythm that would help the audience immerse themselves in the narrative or the time and place. DVD Review: Public Enemies « Screaming Blue Reviews
The stuff I've seen has been belovedly arhythmic, grimy and noisy. Charlottesville Blogs
Through the grimy, age frosted windows I could see where we had entered the complex earlier.
Partly blocking the door of the larder there was a shapeless sofa upon which Mrs. Brooker, our landlady, lay permanently ill, festooned in grimy blankets. The Road to Wigan Pier
Vicky's low-heeled pumps slipped and slid on grimy ice as they crossed the parking lot to the waiting military buses.
Nero did not want anyone to know that he had been born in the village they were about to rape, pillage, and plunder their grimy guts out.
She undressed quickly and absent-mindedly, stuffing her grimy clothes into the washer-dryer.
Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
According to Mr. Sasi, paintings covered in grimy varnish can sometimes be revived through cleaning and revarnishing alone.
Then all is blank; and afterward the rains beat against the grimy windowpanes, or the snows fall upon my scant attire, the wheels rattle in the squalid streets where my life lies in poverty and mean employment.
If you've ever seen Andy Warhol's Trash or Flesh, you'll recognize bits and pieces of those films' grimy vérité style at work here.
An imposing man with the makings of a beard splotched across his face, Garrard skulked down the grimy Philadelphia streets slouched forward as if his muscles were barely contained within his hoodie. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
But when we walk into a greenroom after sitting in a grimy, sweaty van for hours and see a month's worth of groceries sitting in coolers, it's like walking into heaven. Jill Donenfeld: Band Bites: Goin' Veg with Beach Fossils
He entered a large office, very grimy, which is the proper condition of a place where documents concerning coal are dealt with. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918
I began flattening the creased and grimy paper, all my attention focused upon it.
He progressed gingerly towards the gauze grate in the grimy iron girdered floor and was careful not to get too close as he peered into the gloom below.
An ambitious vision of Barnsley transformed from a grimy former mining community into a thriving market town is to be unveiled tonight.
The ticket hall, stairways and platform roof are not covered by blue walls, and are therefore still as grimy, untreated and rundown as they've been for decades.
One of her shoes had come loose; she ducked down to refasten it, and someone's grimy hand crept round her throat.
It is hoped it will change people's perception of Sheffield as a grimy city which has never quite managed to lose its industrial past.
But as others explained, even talented whistlers often choose the tool to avoid putting fingers made grimy by farm work anywhere near their mouth.
He stayed based in grimy Marseilles, instead of resettling in Paris and becoming part of its scene and myth. Gopnik's Daily Pic: Monticelli, van Gogh's godfather
He hurried to the sink, wet Scooter's grimy washcloth, and came back to lean in under the upper bunk and scrub at the writing. STONE CITY
Pember Street, E., is never very cheerful in appearance, not even in mid-spring, when the dingy lilacs in the forecourts of those grimy houses bourgeon and blossom. Hurricane Island
But whereas they were once crisp, motes of dust and household lint had now settled leaving the surface grimy.
Still feeling grimy after the long day on the boat, she walked over to the washbasin to freshen up.
Shot mostly in dark tunnels and grimy city streets, it oozes a gothic quality.
They slither about on the grimy tiles of the orphanage floor. Times, Sunday Times
Osaka's decline is evident in the local prefectural office, a grand stone building with grimy linoleum floor coverings.
I have a copy of the second edition, its original dust jacket tatty and grimy but intact.
Tucked in a bazaar along a grimy street in Gorband, Mahmed Daud keeps a shop about the size of a toolshed.
It was roadhouse style, in grimy yellow and red brick with the mock-Tudor gables much beloved by 1930s pub architects. DEAD BEAT
By this time, the furniture is all covered with a light film of orangish dirt, the windows are grimy, and the garden, driveway and trees all look like they have recently emerged from a sea of dust.
It has shuttered some of its grimy aluminum works on Beijing's orders to cut on overcapacity.
He eyed the old man, his tattered coat and worn trousers, his grimy neckcloth. The Year of Living Scandalously
Seeing that all the toads were now enthusiastically enjoying their morning repast, he reached up and threw the first switch on a grimy control panel mounted on the wall behind him.
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Even the grimy black pine has been painted over with white gloss and the walls are covered in teeny Yeats prints.
In the interior of the dosshouse was a long, wide and grimy board, measuring some 28 by 70 feet. Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories
The film opens with a tableaux of a grimy industrial area where a man loiters impassively, slouching against a wall, kicking a bottle down the street, watching the wind whip up dust devils on a vacant patch of gravel.
Grimy back alley flophouses, squalid arcades lined with girlie nickelodeons and a neon-lined skid row lend the picture an air of authenticity.
The card showed a 19th century photograph of a young boy, no more than eight, stoking the furnace in a grimy workshop, surrounded by men beavering away along a production line.
It was a little friend, a fragrant friend, a tawny and somewhat grimy friend; it was in the pocket of his coat; it was of clay; in fact, it was nothing else than a dudeen. The American Baron
Of course, its vivid colours are depicted, but also the grimy greys and blacks of modern urban Spain.
Dull, grimy and rusted, the traffic signals of Chennai don't get even wiped at periodic intervals!
His coat was still grimy, but she would bathe him later.
Upon discovering it was empty the group moved on, passing portraits and tapestries far too grimy to be determinable.
Pulling himself out from under the car, Jonnie Adair grabs a rag and wipes his grimy hands.
Five drudges, two of them women in such grimy brown-gray rags that F'lar hoped they had had nothing to do with the preparation of the meal, staggered in under the emplattered herdbeast. DragonFlight
The campaign is part of a push to end Manchester's grimy industrial image and sell the city to the world as clean, green and modern.
The other location was York Street, a grimy thoroughfare running between Argyle Street and the river.
As an antidote to James Bond's far-fetched, murderous exotica it was perfect - a world of grimy brutalism, mundane bureaucracy and the vividly realistic, morally-empty, quotidian horror of Cold War espionage.
Behind a grimy, barred window sits a chain-smoking woman of indeterminate age.
I found the film's fractured chronology, grimy miserablism, and Cotillard's ferrety frenzy nerve-wracking, with no compensating grace notes to offset the squalor and syringes. Little Sparrow, Big Thirst: James Wolcott
She bent slightly to look under his grimy hat to check if he was joshing with her.
Blurry fields of murky browns and grimy grays almost overwhelm the odd streaks and smears of hot lavender and violet, and splashes of blue and green.
The everlasting snow which looks so virginal, is in fact distinctly grimy when you get close to it. As I Please
Grimy and eternally ensnarled in traffic, it is clogged by too many people living in too little space.
As he spoke a cab appeared, a grimy little robot jitney with the other Twin in the back.
All the children share two grimy double mattresses, on a double bunk in their tiny plywood bedroom.
Everything had a dark border, the frieze of bike skid marks along the wall, the grimy seat of Phoebe's pram, the rubber stair treads. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Our suits were grimy, and I was bone tired as we sat near a rear exit to the building going over our treasures.
Imagine, Tibbs suggests, that we push grimy workaday industrial processes toward the character of biological processes.
A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand.
They had docked near the edge of the town and made their way down the winding, grimy streets.
The factory I worked in was a massive steelwork labyrinth, riddled with polluted canals, massive grimy workshops, foundries and steam hammers," recalled Tipton. Home Of Metal: a history of the heavy in seven objects
She switched the lights on, and he looked past a grimy portiere into a dingy, disorderly bedroom. Succedaneum
Nor can I deny that the sum total of life lived in that grimy city has a meaning for me beyond choice and deeper than contingency. The Times Literary Supplement
Osaka's decline is evident in the local prefectural office, a grand stone building with grimy linoleum floor coverings.
Out in the car park Damian wiped his grubby nose on an equally grimy handkerchief.
A woman with a grimy kerchief covering her salt-and-pepper hair barters over a sack of dried lentils with a tall merchant crowned with a scarlet turban.
I just realized now how many times I've found myself zoning out in front of my work station while thinking of fondling BSNYC, not as a he or she, but some kind of androgynous muscular waif, a grimy enigma, as he/she unvelcros his/her dirty cycling shoes with her/his gritty fingers after experiencing a whole new world of pain after a race... The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Dignity of Attending a Press Conference
As he spoke a cab appeared, a grimy little robot jitney with the other Twin in the back.
But right now all I wanna do is grab this little garage scene, get it in a choke hold, then branch out, do a little bashment, but stay grimy you get me?
Ages 5+ The never-ending deluge of grubby hankies, horrid socks and grimy nightshirts imposed on the seven washerwomen by their skinflint employer pushes them to go on strike. Recommended reads: ages 5–7
A string of uncommonly frightening encounters and a grimy dark feel sets the bar.
Awl ground up in a greesy grimy goffer sawse tew eet wifout a spoonn( butt (hehe) ai brot a strawww!) It’s not what it looks like! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The frustration is just like when you get popcorn kernel stuck somewhere in your back teeth and your tongue is not dextrous enough and your fingers are too grimy.
Complete with sagging roof and grimy stairway, the flat was above a DIY shop and near a bus stop.
The cookers would be in a really dirty and grimy condition. The Sun
The four youngest were rotund and grimy like their parents.
It undoubtedly gave him his original popularity, and we need not despise it now, inasmuch as it makes less tedious the task of ascertaining and justifying his true place in the further "domestication" -- if only in domesticities too often mean and grimy -- of the French novel. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
The security guard talks to someone on his radio and then pulls out a grimy duster and wipes the window clean.
Grimy tugboats lay beside the traps, shrilling the air with creaking winches as they "brailed" the struggling fish, a half-ton at a time, from the "pounds," now churned to milky foam by the ever-growing throng of prisoners; and all the time the big plants gulped the sea harvest, faster and faster, clanking and gnashing their metal jaws, while the mounds of salmon lay hip-deep to the crews that fed the butchering machines. The Silver Horde
This used to be a dark, gloomy platform with peeling paint on the walls and a grimy low ceiling.

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