How To Use Grubby In A Sentence

Use them to help scrub down grubby bathroom tiles and really get to the gritty bits. The Sun
Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
Harriet slouched until she was almost hunchbacked, wearing boy's clothes, unironed and grubby.
He walked to the chair and looked through the grubby net curtain.
We left the meeting exhausted, exhilarated, and dreaming of when we'd get our grubby, grabby mitts on some final code.

The first is grubby old politics. Times, Sunday Times
Think what ranting about a grubby bathroom could get you. Times, Sunday Times
We transport them from their grubby little lives to Elysian fields. PAINT THE WIND
The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
Once they get grubby or ratty on the bottom, turn the hem under and rehem. Berks county news
That had to be more than sixty years ago now, but in her dream, her bluetick hound had been alive once more, bringing the grubby sand-covered tennis ball back to her time and again so she could throw it. TRIAL BY FIRE
Nor are they as offensive as their contemporary fashion analog: the Birkenstock sandal, which is worn almost exclusively by grubby millionaires (Silicon Valley residents, Olsen twins): Colleen Werthmann: Hillary Clinton Pen-Pal Reveals Letters: "A Portrait of the Grown-Up Dork as a Young Dork"
He held his pale, grubby hand out towards Janet with two twinkling things in it. CHARMED LIFE
Don't just read a recipe book, read as many books as you can get your grubby paws on.
BWith that, Kevin darts to the salad bar and dips his grubby fingers into the crouton jar.
His companion chuckled, `I'm not here about the pension, silly...' His fastidious tone made Arthur feel grubby. BEHINDLINGS
I step inside a shop whose grubby windows are filled with LP covers. LOVE YOU MADLY
These boys, contrary to early claims made by grubby politicians, were not guilty of misbehaviour of any kind.
The bedroom had large bay windows covered with grubby nets.
I did the same, making no further advances to him, though, as I recalled how I hammered his body and head, and how he must have been pricked by falling into the gooseberry bush, I felt sorry, and if he had offered to shake hands I should have forgotten how grubby his always were, and held out mine at once. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden
Salacious in a grubby way; even in his peculations there was no magnificence.
It all got rather grubby. The Sun
Who knows, I might even wash the car, which is looking decidedly grubby.
He explained how life on the march was pretty grubby and smelly.
As grubby and alcoholic as a homunculus can be, he is also a kind, sensitive soul and a musician of some talent.
You turn up a bit grubby, with a dusty old backpack, and they look rather alarmed.
She is a doll made of grubby green satin, with satin stumps for hands and feet, features inked onto a round of calico for her face, and her pointed head of grubby green satin also.
Let him indeed shine a light on the grubby dealings between lobbyists and politicians. Times, Sunday Times
Unless you count the gourmet horse burgers sold from the quaintly grubby vans dotted near the stadium. The Sun
Yet there should also be no need for MPs to feel so badly underpaid that they grub around for funds in grubby places. Times, Sunday Times
It is plain as a pikestaff that if exposed to the incredulous view of the Taxpayer, who, by now, has a pretty clear view of some of the potential abuses, the floor of the House of Commons cellars would soon be awash with the blood of MPs caught with their grubby hands in the till. 'Shred & Bury': The New Westminster Watchword
She was wearing a rather grubby and patched brown dress and was barefoot.
Every day was full of challenges, some gruelling, others just plain grubby.
Babbling brats would congregate near my truck, waving their miscounted sticky change in little grubby fists.
His white shirt was grubby. Times, Sunday Times
It was " rather a grubby business '. THE GUARDSMEN
Make sure you wear clothes that you don't mind getting a bit grubby. The Sun
The star's appearance these days is grubby white. The Sun
That you are banned from the shops because you are a grubby, low-life thief.
Yes they are a bit grubby at times but that was my only concern.
Set in various dusty and grubby locales across the world, it's essentially a photorealistic scramble in various juicy cars. The Sun
Use them to help scrub down grubby bathroom tiles and really get to the gritty bits. The Sun
He was clothed in a soiled tunic and long trousers that barely hid his bronzed feet and grubby toenails.
BWith that, Kevin darts to the salad bar and dips his grubby fingers into the crouton jar.
Think what ranting about a grubby bathroom could get you. Times, Sunday Times
Compared to Watkins, Atlantis is a bit grubby and poorly lit and the place is stacked with arcane junk.
We skipped this because we didn't want our shiny white trainers to get grubby. Times, Sunday Times
The group had been told to dress "grubby," bring tools, and, now, to "buddy up. Books: “Nothing Right”
Grubby politicians kiss babies; but these two cynical opportunists have chosen to exploit emaciated infants with distended bellies as the visual soundbite for 2005.
The star's appearance these days is grubby white. The Sun
Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls.
Otherwise you're just another crude mesomorph leaning up against the singles bar of evolution, his big grubby paw in the pretzels. My Brain is a Pre-Historic Babe Magnet
The baby was clutching his dummy tightly in his grubby fist.
The inevitable happened: it split, disgorging various grubby items onto the road that should have remained a secret between me and the service wash woman at the laundrette.
Frankly, with the new roof there to offer contrast, the slates looked pretty grubby.
About 50 years ago they got so unroyally grubby that abbey authorities would not permit even antiquarians to see them.
Is this romantic or just a bit grubby? The Sun
He is sexist, ageist, racist, anti-intellectual, grubby and waistband-challenged. Times, Sunday Times
What brings a lump to my throat is finding that the grubby'70s light fittings are still casting a yellow gloom over the morning assembly. Times, Sunday Times
Shabby, grubby and stale, even visiting friends from other shared houses would wonder out loud how we could tolerate living there.
The waffle-lined basket is a comfortable classic and easy to keep looking fresh, as the lining can be removed and put through a hot wash whenever it starts to look tired and grubby.
They're trying to get their grubby mitts on our big cars and mansions in Pondok Indah and Bintaro.
Hard to set aside the sublimity suggested by even a grubby style of dove. The Times Literary Supplement
He will be a high-level fixer and a "meeter and greeter" at major corporate events, lending a touch of class to what might otherwise be seen as grubby commercial occasions. Why Tony Blair is a high-tech company's best friend
I plan to double what I regularly give to the Obama campaign as an affirmative protest against this kind of grubby low-level attack. Citizens United to Release Anti-Obama Documentary - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
An extra 23 per cent on top of that just looks a bit grubby. Times, Sunday Times
Don't wipe your grubby hands on my clean towel!
Jack looked up and wiped a grubby hand wearily over his face, streaking the dirt still further.
Technically, Phillips should have been at the forefront of that, not prostrating herself improbably in grubby community centres, and bringing her own herbal tea bags to unaccommodating restaurants.
I was met at the door by a small, benign looking lady in a slightly grubby white coat.
It gets a little bit grubby when people handle it. Times, Sunday Times
grubby little fingers
For eleven months its grubby surface was covered by a makeshift blue wall, screening the leisurely metamorphosis behind.
I also use a quick wipe of the Floral Skin Toner when my skin feels grubby.
A grubby white wooden door led into the lounge, where a blue sofa had been pushed against the far wall. The Sun
Make sure you wear clothes that you don't mind getting a bit grubby. The Sun
It all got rather grubby. The Sun
He held his pale, grubby hand out towards Janet with two twinkling things in it. CHARMED LIFE
He considered Hollywood rather grubby. Times, Sunday Times
One grubby-looking vagrant recently followed me up the road, bellowing at me about how much he needed money for his ‘hard drugs’.
She felt grubby, tired and, now that the car had pulled up outside the cottage, sickeningly tense.
Although they have a rather grubby reputation, business has been thriving and this has been reflected in strong returns. Times, Sunday Times
The baby was clutching his dummy tightly in his grubby fist.
This is not a designer who minds getting grubby; she did most of the herbaceous planting herself. Times, Sunday Times
In truth, I came away from the date feeling a bit grubby.
This week I want to look a little more at the process by which grubby politics is seamlessly transformed into dirty journalism.
Enough about the grubby stuff of getting and spending. Times, Sunday Times
How shocking, then, to see this once-magnificent interior reduced to a shabby, grubby mess.
Instead, bug your brood to give those grubby forearms a good scrubbing.
In the book she recalls him noticing they were "grubby" after a journey from Vienna, and showing them to the bathroom, where he had brushes inscribed "AH". The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot'
Yet there should also be no need for MPs to feel so badly underpaid that they grub around for funds in grubby places. Times, Sunday Times
Through the darkness I could make out a modest, tan coloured house with an overgrown garden and grubby looking shudders drooping from the windows.
Grubby white and blue crystal towers, cliffs and crevasses soar up from the water, dispatching millenniums of compacted snow in the shape of seals, water lilies and bishops' mitres.
I bet he can't wait to get his grubby hands on my money!
Our Anthony has a picture of Britain in his head that must on no account be sullied by contact with grubby reality.
Improvements in the technology behind its production mean that many papers are now more resistant to grubby marks and other damage.
Are they scriveners churning out what the novelist Richard Yates himself a sometimes adman called "grubby little jobs for hire," or are they skilled poets performing on a commercial canvas? Sweating Ad Copy Like 'Mad Men'
But music that's doubtless perfect for hot tropical nights loses something when transplanted to a grubby old English winter. Times, Sunday Times
Our God is not a remote being who sits enthroned on some ethereal height, absorbed in the contemplation of his own perfection, oblivious to this grubby realm in which we live.
In the grubby gaze and glare of publicity, the ACT members run like scaredy-cats - like the scared hares that they are.
It was as if he were listening to the stilted, notebook style of some grubby private investigator relating a wife's infidelities. THE LAST RAVEN
Smelling horsy and looking a bit grubby doesn't stop me from touring the vineyards on the way home, Babich, Nobilos, Coopers Creek and Collards to name a few, or having lunch at one of the many top restaurants that have grown up next to them.
I've trained myself to it in recent years, having a horror of the way some older citizens sink into a smelly, grubby state as they age, and being determined to avoid falling into the same trap.
He wore, like the rest of the cast, grubby athleisure. Times, Sunday Times
The town nameplate sign on the road to the Community School also appeared quite grubby.
What does any of this all-consuming grubby affair have to do with the business of politics?
She shoved it into his hand, a thick parcel of grubby rags and oilcloth.
But, when it comes to selling a house, the grubby topic of money is all-important.
February 1st, 2010 at 4: 37 pm tombaker says: that darned mosser, so proud of his grubby lil’ fingerbooger. not bad, for a feller who gave up on reality and sincerity so very long ago … if he prays hard, and stays in school and away from drugs, he mught just stand a fighting chance. lucky thing, for kids like him, that there are so many compassionate liberals in the world. Think Progress » San Francisco Commonwealth Club postpones O’Keefe event.
Want to stop boosters from getting their greasy, grubby paws on the game?
This is not a designer who minds getting grubby; she did most of the herbaceous planting herself. Times, Sunday Times
A grubby world of art fraud is uncovered. Times, Sunday Times
Every day was full of challenges, some gruelling, others just plain grubby.
It was a grubby old hole then. Times, Sunday Times
It gets a little bit grubby when people handle it. Times, Sunday Times
This is a world that, despite its cheap furniture, dingy apartments and grubby walls hung with fading pictures, is still full of desires and ideals.
Divorce is still seen as something blameworthy, shoddy and grubby by the courts. Times, Sunday Times
I don't recognise the writer's description of would-be scientists as low-class artisans in grubby overalls, nor do I recognise the teaching as ‘elitist’.
Kerouac was a proper beatnik, an existential alchemist of the highway who turned motel dirt into pay dirt by making something heroic-sounding out of his grubby little blunderings about Nowheresville, USA.
They made an odd pair, she bony and remote, he heavy, grubby and vaguely disreputable.
Since deadpan is the way in 3-5 days I should have one in my grubby paws. TeeDee – Salesman of the year!
Love is marred by the grubby ring he left round the bath, the dirty pants on the bedroom floor, the washing you asked him to hang out left screwed up in the washing machine.
An extra 23 per cent on top of that just looks a bit grubby. Times, Sunday Times
My brother has been putting together a large assortment of high grade undergrounds over the last few years, and it constantly amazes me that this type of truly small press material, which often was issued in limited print runs by admittedly avante garde, antidisestablishmentarian, counter-culture individuals, doesn't fetch the premium pricing that the latest gimmicked-up, alternate-covered, piece of mundane dreck does - once the CGC gets its grubby mitts on it. Retro-View: Anus Clenching Adventure With Harold Hedd
Making matters worse, our grubby table is littered with empty bottles of a violent homemade slivovitz, or plum brandy, which we should have avoided last night but didn't.
Are they scriveners churning out what the novelist Richard Yates himself a sometimes adman called "grubby little jobs for hire," or are they skilled poets performing on a commercial canvas? Sweating Ad Copy Like 'Mad Men'
Let him indeed shine a light on the grubby dealings between lobbyists and politicians. Times, Sunday Times
The Conway saga is a sordid tale of grubby politics, naked greed and social ambition. Times, Sunday Times
With a friendly smile she welcomed me into what looked like her (slightly grubby) living room.
He held cloudy memories of a great city, tall houses rippling their reflections in rank canals; grubby gutturals and phlegmish dialects filled his head, and sometimes the clouds rolled away leaving a fine clear view.
We no longer have to make do with the grubby white plastic garden furniture and collapsible click sun beds that were so popular a few years ago.
I bet he can't wait to get his grubby hands on my money!
His companion chuckled, `I'm not here about the pension, silly...' His fastidious tone made Arthur feel grubby. BEHINDLINGS
We are guided through a world where much is shabby and grubby, inhabited by characters who barely communicate with one another.
The two ageing rockers cure all the world's ills over beans on toast in a grubby bedsit. The Sun
The wall-to-wall media coverage was matched only by the grubby machinations of numerous entrepreneurs offering their ‘services’.
Thereupon he engages in what can only be described as a grubby piece of attempted blackmail of his party leader which was rightly rebuffed. Miraj set to become a Mirage
A grubby world of art fraud is uncovered. Times, Sunday Times
His white shirt was grubby. Times, Sunday Times
Enough about the grubby stuff of getting and spending. Times, Sunday Times
A hand was extended to meet his grubby palm, he flinched at the sudden movement.
The bed had a thick straw pallet for mattress, and the sheets were threadbare and grubby, but they had slept on worse.
The grubby man had changed into a crumpled clean shirt and trousers. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
The swarthy figure jogging through the centre of Amsterdam might only have been vaguely familiar last week had it not been for the slightly grubby Hearts training top he was wearing.
Let him indeed shine a light on the grubby dealings between lobbyists and politicians. Times, Sunday Times
Cognizant of seniors' tendency to mislay important objects, Ryan thoughtfully unburdens them with having to handle the grubby little coupons physically: those will be given directly to the insurance providers for safekeeping. Will Durst: Corroded Clockwork
Although slightly worn looking and grubby, they were a stark contrast to the appearance of the slaves they watched quietly shuffle past.
However, if your lounge has become grubby from an accumulation of different stains it should first be treated with talcum powder.
I've spotted a grubby fingerprint on the window and I can't concentrate until I've zapped it with a bottle of Dettox and a damp cloth.
A grubby white wooden door led into the lounge, where a blue sofa had been pushed against the far wall. The Sun
It was a grubby, grotty, sleazy, cruisy dive, but it had atmosphere, and we all loved it despite ourselves.
He was wearing some old shorts and a grubby T-shirt.
It was slightly tatty around the edges, with grubby window frames and slapdash paintwork.
Now we were hard put to find a grubby corner of the upper dock in which to berth Venturous.
It was a grubby old hole then. Times, Sunday Times
"It's another grubby chapter in a rather sinister saga, " added Ms Doyle.
In nearly every Zatoichi film, the female lead falls in love with the grubby, poor, and blind former yakuza, usually because she's drawn to his kindness and willingness to defend the weak.
Set in a depressing flat on a south London estate, teenager Luke rummages down the back of a grubby sofa in a fruitless search for something.
We are approached, then pursued, by a small posse of grubby, half-naked street urchins.
The original plan was as hierarchical as Victorian society, and as grubby. Times, Sunday Times
Although they have a rather grubby reputation, business has been thriving and this has been reflected in strong returns. Times, Sunday Times
But the wax has dripped all over the place, leaving some seats looking rather grubby.
Once more, Julia's endearingly grubby little hand hovered over the clasp of her tote.
Pragmatists, sensing a bottomless well of grubby dishonesty, have called for an amnesty, hoping to encourage names to be named.
Those of you whose grubby mitts have not reached for this shiny golden nugget yet, why not?
His white coat was grubby and stained.
These boys, contrary to early claims made by grubby politicians, were not guilty of misbehaviour of any kind.
Within an hour, grubby tugs pushing heavily laden lighters are battling upstream towards banks lined with the darkest, most satanic-looking towns I'd ever seen.
When a smart-looking chap with money turns up late and signs in some grubby slip of a girl as his wife?
Yesterday on my arrival home from work, tired, grubby and not in the best of humour I plonked myself down in front of the pc, coffee and cigarette in hand, to check my mail before I set about any chores that needed attending too.
He looked through the skies like a maid searching through a sink full of grubby washing for her mistress' car keys which had neglectfully been misplaced; ‘do you believe in all that; UFO's, aliens and the like, Al?’
I guess I can understand, you'd like to lay it on me, try to elevate the whole thing, make it less grubby. A RODENT OF DOUBT
The first is grubby old politics. Times, Sunday Times
It was " rather a grubby business '. THE GUARDSMEN
From being so much with the judges, I grew quite learned in French legal terms, talked of the parquet (which means the Bar), and invariably termed the grubby little Nyons law-court the Palais. The Days Before Yesterday
It used to fit me, like a worn and slightly grubby glove, supporting and sustaining me through my younger years, and still does when I take a trip up for this reason or for that.
CHAZ..a pommy one would be pasty white tea drinking, lets not get too grubby associating with colonial riff raff Cheeseburger Gothic » LMAO.
The Conway saga is a sordid tale of grubby politics, naked greed and social ambition. Times, Sunday Times
The mafia infiltration and grubby money-laundering is a far cry from the hedonistic era portrayed in Fellini's 1960 classic, which starred the Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni as a society reporter and gave the world the word 'paparazzo'. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
March 26th, 2009 2: 21pm stanley Jerusalem - the sheriff is becoming more and bitter. note his words now descending to "grubby" it could be the arrow festering in the toches or tasting the bitter herbs ahead of pesach - he digs bigger holes for himself with every essay he sends, and for what purpose except possibly to amuse - offen yam you know the beginning alanadale On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Divorce is still seen as something blameworthy, shoddy and grubby by the courts. Times, Sunday Times
She is a doll made of grubby green satin, with satin stumps for hands and feet, features inked onto a round of calico for her face, and her pointed head of grubby green satin also.
He had done nothing in his grubby and unenterprising life but walk in his father's shadow, and it was soon to be made clear that this trend was not about to change.
She held a doll in her hand, a grubby raggedy thing.
And possibly most importantly, I can have that last piece of Chocolate cake before he gets his grubby little mitts on it.
I guess I can understand, you'd like to lay it on me, try to elevate the whole thing, make it less grubby. A RODENT OF DOUBT
But music that's doubtless perfect for hot tropical nights loses something when transplanted to a grubby old English winter. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, it's through the mediation of the new Capitol building's role as a cultural force -- one iconically reproduced on currency, commemorated in tacky souvenirs, and glimpsed through grubby windows from the backseats of cars -- that the presence of his future makes itself felt. Boing Boing
He was wearing some old shorts and a grubby T-shirt.
Is this romantic or just a bit grubby? The Sun
Against a tropical backdrop, things get predictably grubby. Times, Sunday Times
The audience is made to feel like a bunch of Peeping Toms, leering grimly through the upturned collars of their grubby macs into the love lives of the rich and famous.
He considered Hollywood rather grubby. Times, Sunday Times
Yet for all Mann's show of creative muscle, Luck remains very much a David Milch show, from the grubby poetry of the dialogue "You don't know how your daddy died, what they did to him," Nolte mutters wistfully to his horse early on to the roughened beauty of the setting. After John From Cincinatti, David Milch spies a change in his Luck
We skipped this because we didn't want our shiny white trainers to get grubby. Times, Sunday Times
There is a very unglamorous fridge, stuffed with browning apples, cheap champagne and bottles of Evian water, a box of tissues and seven rather grubby spoons.
I thought your flat feet were firmly on the ground and your grubby little fingers always ready to grab the golden egg.
He wore ragged trousers and a grubby torn shirt that was far too big for him and looked as though it was a type of tent.
Would your taste buds get wet at the thought of Marco sweating and wheezing over your grub, his infested hair swooshing around while he man-handles it all with his grubby savaloy fingers? Archive 2007-09-01
Yet there should also be no need for MPs to feel so badly underpaid that they grub around for funds in grubby places. Times, Sunday Times

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