grime
noun
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
grimes
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present tense formof grime (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The different greases and grimes each part creates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
Sabela grimes for their performances in “The Motherboard Suite”; and Annique Roberts, for her work with the dance company Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
Sabela grimes, is a bit of a departure in that it's more heavily Afro-Cuban than salsa-influenced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2016
Boucher has written, on Tumblr, that “claire and grimes are completely different ppl at this point,” and has said, of a disappointing performance, “It wasn’t a Grimes show…. It was Claire pretending to be Grimes.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2015
It would be agreeable also to sleep in a chamber far from town noises and grimes, with few honks from late excursionists and but little early morning clatter from a diminished staff.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
