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Example sentences for "dirty work"

  • Monty beckoned to the Baganda who had once done Schillingschen's dirty work.

  • I said there'll be no dirty work, that's all.

  • I'm short-handed, but not so short as to engage an unwilling man, or a man who wouldn't be ready for any sort of dirty work.

  • When ye see him goin', ye know there's dirty work to be done!

  • Did they understand that society had to have coal and that some one had to do the "dirty work" of providing it?

  • Had two months of "dirty work" in the bowels of the earth changed him so?

  • Seems to me," said the cockney corporal, "that there was a deal of dirty work on both sides.

  • There will be dirty work," he said, "as sure as fate.

  • Dirty work ahead," I thought to myself, and went into the Colonel's room with the others.

  • A DIRTY WORK "A dirty work," said Dyer, rebuked for spilling Hundreds of lives to irrigate new lands.

  • A dirty work, but not for British hands, Dabbling in blood to earn each day their shilling.

  • It is dirty work, on account of the oil and ink used.

  • It is dirty work, and, I think, unwholesome on account of the dust.

  • It is wet, dirty work, and the women receive somewhat higher wages.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dirty work" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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