(1) And with the grimy dual carriageway of the Cromwell Road cutting across it, it's no wonder that many pedestrians preferred to take the dank Victorian tunnel that runs under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the Science Museum.
(2) In a grimy backroom of one neighbourhood mosque, Jan Mohammad, a blind hafez – a memoriser of the Qur’an – said he was unsure Omar had ever existed.
(3) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(4) People around, young people in general can see what engineering is and the fact that it is no longer a mucky, oily, grimy place to work but it is a light, airy, clean environment," he said.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Midnight Special opens like a classic crime thriller: a missing-child alert on local TV news describes two men and a boy, who then appear before us in a grimy motel room, their behaviour contradicting the idea that the boy has been abducted.
(6) There's a believability to it – these characters aren't superheroes, they have this griminess to them, these nuances.
(7) The remake runs on rails from A to Z, and what Wiseman gains in his grimy, ill-lit visuals he loses in the acting: everyone here is a name actor who bores me (Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale – AKA Mrs Wiseman), or an actor I love (Bryan Cranston, Bill Nighy) being underused or miscast.
(8) He brought his hand to his face, covered in a paste of blood and dust beneath a shock of grimy hair, and looked at the red stain on his fingers, a look of quiet surprise on his face.
(9) When you are all sweaty and grimy in the heat of the city, this is the most delicious and refreshing thing ever – and super cheap.
(10) For the trademark exterior shots of grimy terrace homes, opening directly on to the street, the team use a small area around Theed Street in Waterloo, close to the Old and Young Vic theatres.
(11) At the local administration, the doors of the nearby cafe burst open and dozens of children, grimy, bloodied and some limp, were hurriedly carried out into the street by police and bystanders.
(12) Tinder uses the same GPS capabilities as Grindr – the wildly popular and barefacedly grimy gay hook-up app – but requires every user to have a Facebook account, which gives it a safer air.
(13) Along with Atos and Serco and the rest of the grimy battery of state contractors, that means a new significance for the army of voluntary organisations struggling to pick up the pieces, often with some Whitehall blessing.
(14) But the worst are shikumen s, no matter how historically significant or beautiful, that have become so decrepit and grimy from decades of overcrowding, heavy communal usage and minimal infrastructural investment by residents and local authorities.
(15) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
(16) A few blocks away, beneath the 101 freeway, you could find the likes of Paul Checoine, a former bicycle messenger sunk in a grimy wheelchair, stricken with disease, drug addiction and mental illness, chattering a mile a minute to nobody in particular as traffic roared overhead.
(17) Today B29 is showing its age and looks more like a dirty old dock than a pool with its crumbling grey concrete, grimy brickwork and old ducts and sections of corroding pipes.
(18) Gupta, who says he has conducted more than 50,000 such operations, told Reuters news agency that health workers gave the women Indian-manufactured brands of ciprofloxacin , a commonly prescribed antibiotic, and ibuprofen, a pain killer, after the operations, which were conducted in a grimy room of an unused private hospital in a village.
(19) Against the cell’s peeling walls and grimy sink and toilet, Ai’s stool and Fela’s saxophone hold out the promise of bold but joyous antagonism.
(20) "We're dealing with a hundred years of suppression," said Berrington, streaked and grimy from round-the-clock battle.
Grubby
Definition:
(a.) Dirty; unclean.
(n.) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We were not in the army," says Sunday Sienda, 21, wearing a grubby Barcelona football shirt.
(2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(3) They say that she didn't work for it but some people say that she fought for it," he said huddled over a small wooden box containing hundreds of grubby looking Liberian notes.
(4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
(5) – rather than on the man’s indecent entitlement, grubbiness and criminality.” 'These women are not statistics' – deaths in Australia in 2015 Read more Surely Lay would cringe, then, at comments made by Victorian homicide squad head, detective inspector Mick Hughes, following the brutal and seemingly random killing of 17-year-old schoolgirl, Masa Vukotic, in broad daylight while she was out walking as part of her usual exercise routine.
(6) The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history.
(7) A chink, the merest pinprick of light, has opened up in the grubby soap opera of Sepp Blatter, Fifa and the future of football.
(8) When first confronted by Arab political revolutions, Britain vacillated, reluctant to abandon useful and grubby friendship with corrupt regimes.
(9) John McDonnell , the shadow chancellor, said: “The behaviour of the chancellor over the last 11 days calls into question his fitness for office he now holds.” The budget was the result of the “grubby, incompetent manipulations of a political chancellor”, he added.
(10) I'm not sure what sort of woman "we" expect to suffer domestic abuse, but those of us who spend too much of our lives reading celebrity autobiographies are not quite as shocked by proof that domestic abuse is not solely "the grubby problem of the inarticulate and poorly educated, who can't eloquently express their frustration, who are not self-aware or emotionally intelligent enough to thrash out their differences via a civilised heart-to-heart, rather than simply with a thrashing".
(11) Senator Conroy has opened his account as Labor’s defence spokesman with a grubby and pre meditated slur against one of our most respected 3-star lieutenant general officers, accusing him of a political cover-up no less.
(12) The Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, characterised it as a “grubby, shameless” deal.
(13) Two decades on from denationalisation, and with oversight entrusted to technocratic regulators who regard themselves as untouchable as judges, the very idea of grubby politics intervening directly on what businesses charge families for fuel had come to seem unthinkable.
(14) McCann approves of a bawdy drinking song recorded by the Hold Steady , and there are grubby cameos from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Will Champion of Coldplay.
(15) 12.55pm BST Mo Yan's China: 'a world of magic, sexual exploitation, ignorance and senseless violence' In his top 10 books on China , Paul Mason chose Mo's Big Breasts and Wide Hips as his number two, calling it Mo's masterpiece: China's 20th century told symbolically through the story of one man, from birth to maturity; an adult who cannot wean himself from his mother's milk, assailed by wave upon wave of misfortune, poverty, war, imprisonment and finally release into the grubby capitalism of the 1990s.
(16) The Trumpian “so” also works similarly in the opposite direction: to intensify negatives without descending to grubby detail.
(17) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
(18) Grubby green fingers For small children, the magic of planting a seed and watching it grow (watch out for overzealous waterers) may even trump the CBeebies schedule.
(19) It feels grubby to enter such a debate as Aleppo burns, but the revision of history demands a response.
(20) There are outliers in the discourse, but asylum seekers are condemned by some as “vermin” and “ like cockroaches ”, or sneered at as “filthy”, “grubby” or “penniless”.