(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.
Rimy
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with rime; frosty.
Example Sentences:
(1) A considerable degree of overall similarity was seen between rimL and rimJ, but the degree of similarity between rimL and rimI was very low.
(2) The nucleotide sequence of the gene and the amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence were compared with those of two other ribosomal protein acetylases encoded by the rimI and rimJ genes (Yoshikawa et al.
(3) From the nucleotide sequence data for the two genes the RimI enzyme was deduced to contain 161 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular weight (Mr) of 18232 and the RimJ enzyme contains 194 amino acid residues with a calculated Mr of 22687.
(4) The rimI gene of Escherichia coli K12, which encodes an enzyme catalysing acetylation of the N-terminal alanine of ribosomal protein S18, has been cloned into a mini-F plasmid pRE432 and characterized at the molecular level.
(5) MAK3 encodes a protein with substantial homology to the Escherichia coli rimI N-acetyltransferase that acetylates the NH2 terminus of ribosomal protein S18, and shares consensus sequences with a group of N-acetyltransferases.