Example Sentences

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That the smell and dirtiness of cigarettes would vanish into a cleaner, sleeker technological future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Mother-of-four Angelina Fosu, who has lived in James Turner Street since 2017, said: "The dirtiness and the rats are too much - inside the house, in our rooms. They need to clean the streets."

From BBC • Feb. 29, 2024

Predictably, each side saw dirtiness in the play through its own prism.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

“The dirtiness of corruption in the middle of a humanitarian tragedy is something more shocking and much closer to people’s real suffering,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2021

But that increased the bomb’s overall power, which created an absolute increase in dirtiness.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik