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Example sentences for "dirtier"

Lexicographically close words:
dirl; diro; dirt; dirthy; dirtied; dirtiest; dirtiness; dirty; dirtying; diru
  1. They crowd, in their numbers, into dirty tenement houses, in yet dirtier streets; streets in which they barter, buy and sell with all the instinct and all the indomitable energy of their race.

  2. Were these places dirtier in Dickens's time?

  3. There is more litter and lumber in it than of old, and it is dirtier if possible; likewise, it is ghostly with traces of its dead inhabitant and even with his chalked writing on the wall.

  4. The house in Thavies Inn had bills in the windows annoucing that it was to let, and it looked dirtier and gloomier and ghastlier than ever.

  5. If the houses are not dirtier than the street, it is only because every possible element of filth enters into the latter; if they are not dirtier inside than outside, it is because superlatives have no superlative.

  6. Their quarters were noticeably dirtier than those of the men.

  7. I will bet you a bottle there is a dirtier in company, said the doctor, who had overheard.

  8. I may remark by the way that the dirtier people are in their persons the more delicate is their sense of modesty.

  9. The one bright arrow of day, in that gaunt and shattered barrack, made the rest look dirtier and darker, and the sight drove us at last into the open.

  10. The weather was dirtier than ever and the wind harder.

  11. I daresay that to the weatherwise this glow signified yet dirtier weather in store; but we surrendered ourselves to the charm of the hour.

  12. An unpainted floor becomes much dirtier and is harder to clean than a painted one.

  13. Your face becomes much dirtier when you are perspiring.

  14. This is why your face gets much dirtier when it is perspiring than when it is dry.

  15. Sunday,' says he, 'I generally visit some friends in town and seem to swim in clearer water, but the dirty green seems all the dirtier when I get back.

  16. She was successful chiefly in leaving things dirtier than she found them, and Augustine, whose ideal is high in these matters, insisted that Mrs. Burden spent the morning making the dirt she had to spend the afternoon cleaning up.

  17. I probably should have been much dirtier under the same circumstances.

  18. Or perhaps he has fallen into the Republic,' said Rochefoucauld; 'it's the only thing dirtier that I know of.

  19. A sort of uncomely offshoot from the main inn building, built on piles in the earth after the fashion of the seashore houses of the Malay--but much dirtier and incomparably more shaky.

  20. In many ways they are dirtier than the Chinese--notably in the preparation of their food.

  21. The people, though dirtier and more ragged, seem certainly happier than those in London.

  22. For more than an hour the carriage threaded its way through a dingy brick labyrinth of streets, growing smaller and smaller and dirtier and dirtier the further we went.

  23. Two other sticks which came from the East Indies are straight, glazed, made somewhat thin at both ends, have no stamp, and are of a darker and dirtier red colour.

  24. Every day he grew dirtier and rougher, until at last he looked more like some wild creature of the wood than a little town kitten who should have known enough to wash and care for himself.

  25. You'll only make yourself dirtier if you try to wash your face before you clean your paws.

  26. A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen.

  27. Our first impressions of Pekin were not favourable, for a dustier, noisier, dirtier place it has never been my lot to visit.

  28. It is curious that we invariably found, throughout our journey, the nearer the town the dirtier the post-house.

  29. As any one who has ever visited it must know, there exists no dirtier city in the world than Pekin, no filthier individual, both morally and physically, than the Pekinite.

  30. To all appearance, the generality of men seem here dressed alike, with this difference, that some are dirtier than others; occasionally one has an extra garment, but that is all.

  31. Apropos of this I once made a Corean very angry by remarking that "really the safety of the city could not be in dirtier hands.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dirtier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.