Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The maternal influence is muted, but Mendes is scrubbily committed to, and convincing in, the part.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2013

She was rather scrubbily dressed, and nothing that she wore looked very clean or very new.

From The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League by Morrison, Gertrude W.

The beard he shocked father so by shaving off has sprouted scrubbily during his illness.

From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

The beard he shocked father so by shaving off, has sprouted scrubbily during his illness.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

When the sheer face of the cliff ran out to a steep, scrubbily timbered hillside, he dropped down to the valley floor and bore toward the river through a wide flat.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.