Wondering how to use Grimy in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as begrimed or dingy.
Grimy in a sentence
Grimy meaning
- Stained or covered with grime.
- From the urban musical genre called grime.
- Morally corrupt, malicious, vile, or selfish; base or dirty; rotten.
Using Grimy
- The main meaning on this page is: Stained or covered with grime. | From the urban musical genre called grime. | Morally corrupt, malicious, vile, or selfish; base or dirty; rotten.
- Useful related words include: begrimed, dingy, grubby, grungy.
- In the example corpus, grimy often appears in combinations such as: the grimy, in grimy, with grimy.
Context around Grimy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 4 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grimy
- In this selection, "grimy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, cleaning, particularly, house, jaegersborggade and dead stand out and add context to how "grimy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include add a grimy punctuation to and against the grimy environments of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grimy" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grimy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was the grimy, dead-souled antithesis to John Hughes' peppy tales of suburban woe. (15 words)
Grimy Vegas punks Life's Torment will shred up, down, and all around in Eastlake. (15 words)
The character sprites are all detailed and stand out well against the grimy environments of the city. (17 words)
I wanted nothing more than smooth sailing by any means necessary, and defined it as: no tantrums, no keeping Uncle Zack up at night, no dragging felt pens across Uncle Zack’s white walls, no matter how grimy they are. (40 words)
The brutally sadistic gameplay immediately throws players into a bleak, disturbing horror experience, as they must rely heavily on stealth in grimy, unpleasant environments en route to taking out numerous bloodthirsty enemies. (32 words)
Being stuck in an old, grimy house like Grimmauld Place made Sirius irritable and restless, especially when other members of the Order were out there doing their part for the cause. (31 words)
So, can we expect all the grimy, bloody sleaziness from the original trailer in its feature-length expansion? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
Being stuck in an old, grimy house like Grimmauld Place made Sirius irritable and restless, especially when other members of the Order were out there doing their part for the cause.
In 2010, Christian Puglisi’s Relae braved street thugs and drug dealers to begin the renewal of grimy Jaegersborggade in Copenhagen.
It was the grimy, dead-souled antithesis to John Hughes' peppy tales of suburban woe.
Many shared their own hacks for cleaning grimy over trays including using Tricleanium concentrated cleaner or washing powder in hot water for those who don't have a dishwasher.
Ogulu is more vulnerable on “Cheat on Me” feat Dave whose British glottal stops add a grimy punctuation to the pace.
So, can we expect all the grimy, bloody sleaziness from the original trailer in its feature-length expansion?
So much of what made work was Alan Parker's direction, namely in how it captured the grimy feel of both moody Brooklyn and humid New Orleans.
The brutally sadistic gameplay immediately throws players into a bleak, disturbing horror experience, as they must rely heavily on stealth in grimy, unpleasant environments en route to taking out numerous bloodthirsty enemies.
The show is packed full of grimy shadowed environments that feel really imposing, helping viewers understand the confusion and fear the characters are experiencing at that moment.
What’s more, of all the entries in the series, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is the one that spends the least time in grimy factories and industrial plants.
Even with routine cleaning, flight attendant Cher Dallas points out that certain spots on a plane are particularly grimy.
Goodlord is the perfectly awful name of the online property company the narrator must use to renew the tenancy of her damp, grimy flat.
His grimy, often graphically violent, and deeply uncomfortable works have — somehow — made him a go-to candidate to direct major studio blockbusters.
Meanwhile, in this universe Alfie was told to stop messing about in class before being ‘encouraged’ into the grinding, grimy world of an apprenticeship in the Sheffield steelworks.
Stephen Sondheim's musical, rooted in horror aesthetics and grand guignol, is set in a grimy 1840s London.
You have a monstrous killer alien that can sneak around and pick you off in the shadows and a universe filled with grimy, cramped space stations.
Commercials for grills, jeeps and hiking boots make the great outdoors seem like a magical place, and it is — until you have to clean all that grimy gear afterward.
The character sprites are all detailed and stand out well against the grimy environments of the city.
Grimy Vegas punks Life's Torment will shred up, down, and all around in Eastlake.
I wanted nothing more than smooth sailing by any means necessary, and defined it as: no tantrums, no keeping Uncle Zack up at night, no dragging felt pens across Uncle Zack’s white walls, no matter how grimy they are.
Common combinations with grimy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the grimy 8×
- in grimy 3×
- with grimy 3×
- of grimy 2×