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Example sentences for "grimed"

Lexicographically close words:
grimace; grimaced; grimaces; grimacing; grime; grimly; grimme; grimmer; grimmest; grimness
  1. From where they stood, as far as the eye could reach, advanced a dense mass of dirt-grimed men.

  2. Bertie looked at the horny, dirt-grimed palm, then up in Mr. Huffham's face.

  3. More important, it kept him from the jobs that grimed his hands.

  4. They gave him little messy jobs to do that grimed his hands and made Jake's stern rule of cleanliness hard to achieve.

  5. He was grimed with dust and dirt, and smeared with blood.

  6. Pacific, not through chance, but through her merchant marine built up from rough grimed fellows who quarry the silver mines of the sea.

  7. The wind, boisterous and gusty, whisked the soot-grimed city leaves about in the high suburb at the foot of a long range of hills, making one think it would be easy to have done with life on such an uncongenial day.

  8. But when he turned to the woman who lay unconscious on the ground, a sob burst from his lips, and tears were streaming down his dust-grimed cheeks.

  9. The rifle that he had picked up and used so well was still clutched, grimed with smoke, in his hands.

  10. Warner and Pennington, grimed with smoke and mud and stained here and there with blood, were near also, shouting wildly.

  11. The big natural arch of rock that overshadows them all is grimed with the dead black of smoke, and two great white crosses painted on the cliff mark the shrine.

  12. The black, smoke-grimed cavern told of the fierce struggle, and the great white cross of the holy man whose body rests within.

  13. The outer room, or kitchen, was quite bare, with smoke-grimed rafters, and a heap of firewood and a few pots and pans in it.

  14. Wardo, grimed from head to foot, dashed into the room at the head of his men as a crowd of invaders surged through the long window.

  15. Nicanor came from one of the branching tunnels, a pick over his shoulder, stripped to the waist and grimed with sweat and dirt, his lean chest and arms thrown out against the murky candle-light.

  16. He pointed to a cluster of tiny grimed gunny-bag tents in a corner of the highest part of the Sok.

  17. I could see it from my bedroom window, and all night the lights blazed in the factories; and when I went down into its streets there were always grimed men speeding upon their business.

  18. Up to the blinkin' neck," said a big man with a dirt-grimed skin, voicing the opinion of all.

  19. The lad brought out a folded creased slip of paper wet with his tears and grimed with contact with his fingers.

  20. The locomotive was disconnected and the tired and grimed crew drove for the dog house.

  21. It was the one with the scarred face, and, being in addition grimed with sweat and dust, and panting heavily, he presented a truly ferocious aspect.

  22. It was an oak-panelled, wainscoted room, with a low, smoke-grimed ceiling that was traversed by a massive beam.

  23. Under his sharply given commands they recovered their morale, and a few minutes later Baillie brought his powder-grimed guns again into position on the left of the battery.

  24. For while men may be allowed to go grimed and dirty on campaign, the horses at least must be curried and rubbed and sponged into perfect health and comfort whenever there is opportunity.

  25. His hair, eyebrows and mustache had been badly singed, his face was smoke-grimed and dirty, great holes had been burned in the thin shirt, the flesh showing angrily red through the rents.

  26. Ramsey Thomas, happening to be in a near-by city, and answering a summons by telegraph, arrived at the scene in an automobile as Courtland stood there, grimed and tattered from his fight with death.

  27. All they wanted was to sleep, and on many of the war-grimed faces was a smile of satisfied content.

  28. Thorne was stripped to shirt and trousers, besides being grimed all over with dust, when looking around for a moment he saw Mrs. Farquhar and Alison in a wagon not far away.

  29. Now he was grimed with dust and dripping with perspiration, and a tantalizing cloud of flies hovered over him.

  30. Flora had smear on her face; her hands were grimed with the floor.

  31. He had his back to the door, seeing his work and his child who now sat vacant upon the floor and grimed her eyes with her fists too sleepy to hunt play--seeing his wife.

  32. Stiff locks, sticky with dirt, hung about her grimed face.

  33. She clasped his plump wrists folded in fat and held them while he struggled until the dirt and sweat with which they were grimed rolled up under her fingers.

  34. Cupid's messenger, wearing grease-grimed overalls and the fatuous grin of the dalliant male, would transmit his communication to the uneager Nick.


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