(n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
(n.) Meanness; sordidness.
(n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
(v. t.) To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this morning's right-of-centre national papers were determined to rub his nose in the dirt.
(2) He got so bad that I - and this is true - turned off the television and went outside to watch my son add to his dirt collection.
(3) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(4) Earlier this year, a century-old wasteland of limestone and red dirt in south-west Nigeria was transformed into the biggest cement plant in Africa.
(5) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(6) The land is held by the Navajo people, and visitors must pay an access fee to drive through the tribal park on a 17-mile dirt loop, which is suitable for all cars when dry but impassable after a storm ( usually in late summer).
(7) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
(8) Apparently, optimal disinfection of contaminated knives is extremely difficult to attain without the use of mechanical forces such as a high pressure water jet to remove the dirt.
(9) This state of high resistance to infection can be reduced by several factors which include circulatory embarrassment, tissue injury, dead space, and the presence of foreign bodies (dirt, sutures, drains, etc.).
(10) Among the prime concerns, especially for facial skin, is the type of dirt, debris, or make-up to be removed.
(11) We’re out there one night ’til 3am shoveling dirt on the fire.
(12) The land that when you shed your shoes and walk, you feel every grain of dirt and every blade of grass and for a moment, everything is right in the world and you are in your rightful place in it.
(13) Because the all-hallowed children must learn from their elders to exercise, every adult entering Hampstead Heath must hit the dirt for a set of 25 press-ups.
(14) Elevated concentrations of the soil fungi were significantly (P = 0.05) associated with the dirt floor, crawl-space type of basement.
(15) With its dirt pavements and crumbling wooden homes, the city of Kirov is a city stuck in time.
(16) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
(17) Observations for estrus were conducted three times daily in a dirt paddock containing a testosterone-treated cow.
(18) On the outskirts of Juba, along a dirt road just past the UN camp, opposition forces clad in new uniforms and boots lined up for a military parade.
(19) Lead antiknock additives are therefore not a significant contributor to the lead content of dirt around houses where children usually play.
(20) As the result of smear slide evaluation, it was concluded that proper sputum specimens have been smeared but smears were generally too thin and contaminated with too many dirt .
Sirt
Definition:
(n.) A quicksand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(2) In this respect, it hardly matters whether Isis itself, an affiliate, or simply fighters trading under the name were responsible for the deaths of the Egyptian Copts in Sirte .
(3) Sirte had previously been held by Libya Dawn, the Islamist-led militia alliance that rebelled against the elected government last summer and has been fighting a bitter war against pro-government forces ever since.
(4) In 1981 the Sixth Fleet shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sirte in the first military collision, in modern times, between the US and an Arab country.
(5) In January, it killed 22 Christians , 21 of them Egyptians, on the Sirte shore, triggering Egyptian airstrikes.
(6) In late August, armed, masked men stopped a car carrying Egyptian workers near the Libyan city of Sirte.
(7) Some of the dead in Sirte had their hands bound together, and bloodstains and spent rifle cartridges indicated that they had been summarily executed.
(8) And he expounded his new vision – a United States of Africa, with Sirte as its capital, and himself as its self-anointed king of kings.
(9) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
(10) Nasr was evasive about when he found out his former boss was in Sirte.
(11) Nato said airstrikes pounded targets around Sirte as well as the towns of Waddan and Sabha in the southern desert.
(12) Rebels have also launched a surprise offensive towards Gaddafi's birthplace, Sirte.
(13) But as the rebels move closer to the town of Sirte, the revolutionary council is attempting to bring on board disparate tribal and local leaders and encourage a popular uprising to pave the way for a rebel takeover.
(14) Isis positions in the strategic port city of Sirte were hit by manned aircraft and drones on Monday, after a request from the UN-backed unity government.
(15) Sirte is Gaddafi's birthplace, and he is likely to heavily defend the town.
(16) Even if the rebels have the men trained to use them – which is open to question – it will be hard to turn such weapons on Sirte when the UN resolution authorising air strikes specifically says those strikes are designed to protect civilians.
(17) The Bayda government called for further “consultation and co-ordination” to counter Islamic State control of the coastal city of Sirte and its push westwards towards Misrata and to the south towards Jufra.
(18) In a few months its units conquered the town and pushed south into the Sirte Basin, taking a 100-mile stretch of coastline.
(19) Isis affiliates in Libya have not yet targeted any of these sites, but the group dominates two towns on the Mediterranean shoreline – Derna and Sirte – and has a presence in others.
(20) By Sunday night their Their rapid advance westwards is heading for the Libyan leader's home town and stronghold, Sirte, where two loud explosions were heard.