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Sentence Examples Appearances are deceptive in these restaurants, which look like dingy pubs from the outside. Many spills can introduce oils into your carpet which attract dirt and help lead to a dingy looking carpet. The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past. I spent years in the lurid squats and dingy bed-sitters of Bristol, then the butter-yellow, peeling Georgian terraces of Brighton. My last memory of my real life is that I was sitting in the back of a dingy taxi cab in Prague. Its hangings, the curtains, the room's upholstery were the dingy colour of the lees of wine. Her room was painted dingy brown that could make even a strong stomach sick. I've fallen into a dingy subterranean bar called KGB, lured by the initials and the sign outside depicting a froth-capped beer glass. Apart from one inflatable dingy and the paddle steamer Waverley docked somewhere beneath us, the Clyde is empty. The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room. Though close to the city centre, it serves a relatively poor area, hemmed in by dense, dingy apartment blocks. The action is set in a dingy, cluttered bedsit, and the cramped space at first seems ideal. On the way back I passed an old man riding a motorcycle, wearing a blue plaid lungi, dingy white shirt, and a tall red fez with a black tassel. Wherever he was, with his family, in a fine mansion, or in a dingy prison cell, he made the very best of his circumstances. Sunlight flooded the previously dingy room, illuminating the slightly discolored spots on the carpet and the ugly brown wallpaper. They had been replaced by dingy towers that were covered in rust and dirt and the streets were full of filth. The bedroom door slowly crept opened as the mid-morning sunlight bled into the dingy space. But the despotism in certain dingy and decayed tribes in the twentieth century does not prove that the first men were ruled despotically. I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand. The dark and dingy rooms have just one little room up a stairway, which served as a toilet and bath. Show More Sentences He was shaggy and a dirty person, his dingy white shirt full of holes, and jeans full of mud. Who wants to go to a dingy playing room to get crushed in silence when you can go to the pub and talk to your friends. A dark, dingy little shop that always smelt faintly of cigarettes and Pine-O-Clean. An older me should have taken a younger me aside years ago and had a stern few words in a dark corner of a dingy bar. It was a dingy place with a dirty floor and more dust than goods on the shelves. Finding no one, she sighed and seated herself at a small table in a dingy corner of the room. It's a dark room, with only a single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling, dingy walls, dark floor. It stood at the top of Newport Street in Old Town, a dingy dark building measuring a modest eight feet square. She looked around a dingy and dirty room that contained two stalls, but no other door out. The building he envisages for the association is a far cry from the dingy, dark hovel it occupies now. I trudged through the snow and ice to the edge of town and got a room in a dingy motel next to the interstate. Dust was everywhere, the floor was dingy and the once white walls were now a drab gray. When Kuruvila took over as headmaster, the school in the crowded George Town area was dark and dingy. It was when I first moved back to London, and I was renting a room in a flatshare in a dingy house in Putney. Her attempts had led her not to a position on board a ship, but to this dirty, dingy waiting job. Today, through the clever use of windows and glass bricks, the warren-like structure never feels dingy. They are in a rather dingy room with a few Argos inspired design touches and in the presence of two young children. Pristine new white grout replaced the dingy old grout, and the tile was cleaned, buffed, and sealed to show its lively colors to best effect. The dingy, gunmetal gray image is soft, sloppy and lacking any real artistic merit. We were in the small, dingy office, paint peeling off the walls and the ancient computer monotonously humming. Show More Sentences I suddenly was struck by how much his ranch house contrasted to my dingy apartment. More wireworms and white grubs have been observed and increased numbers of dingy cutworms, which overwinter here, are likely. To find it you follow a thin alley and stoop through an ancient wooden door, stepping into a dingy vestibule. Spike pressed ahead regardless, scrubbing a virginal white spot into the dingy patio. Following her divorce, a mother has to relocate with her daughter to a dingy apartment block with a worrying stain on the ceiling. Dewey drinks hard, sleeps late, plays gigs in dingy clubs and, most importantly, loves to rock. A standard set of 16 veneers over dingy old teeth, and the homely are transformed with instant white choppers. You can get the best of Middle Eastern, especially Egyptian, spices and spice mixes in the dingy shops where you can manage with Hindi. Or laws that banish her and her ilk from public places to the dingy sidewalk. I had the choice of a dingy subway leading south towards the delights of the town centre or a short walk to the railway station and a fast exit. All this makes European football look like one of those dingy dive bars where a dozen or so swarthy, unshaven toughs chase two or three belles. The apartment also had a small built in kitchen, but that was only a small fridge beset by a sink and a washer, all equally dingy and small. You're probably thinking it's just some small office block on the outer edges of the city, or some dingy milk bar down south, but you're wrong. In between Wanee's dingy store and those new monoliths sits a line of shuttered shopfronts with for sale signs. Two men busily scrubbed dingy, white plastic chairs, while another mopped soapy water off the tiled floor. We stopped at the main desk of the dingy motel and waited while Jimmy registered and checked us in. I think the blue wash that old ladies use looks bright white to them, whereas bright white looks like a dingy, muddy yellow. The reserve is also home to a large number of butterfly species including green hairsteak, dingy skipper and dark green fritillary. Maybe we could tell readers that cricket is a game played in trench coats, in dingy offices lit by neon signs blinking through venetian slats. The list of butterflies found here is impressive with Duke of Burgundy and dingy skipper in spring, together with small, common and chalkhill blues. Show More Sentences Running through plans and counter-plans, he drove me straight to a dingy pub where he began medicating himself with an endless stream of cigarettes and vodka shooters. What if your place of work is not a dingy workstation in a block of concrete but a floating sun-drenched five-star hotel heading for Alaska or Bermuda? Just as we once had speakeasies, we will now have smokeeasies. There will be dingy little basement hideouts where people who want to will have a smoke. For the seven or so people who've never heard of the campaign, let's just say it involves a man, a dingy apartment, a chicken suit, and a garter belt. The sets and atmosphere are dingy, with performers dressed in jeans and sneakers and leather jackets, and conveying a sassy, modern manner in their characters' persona. This is to say that if you leave a dingy in shallow water and the tide goes out, leaving your boat on the sand, you have committed an offence which carries a fine. Inside the boardinghouse across the street Ben slipped a nightshirt, once white with purple stripes, but now dingy and pale from many washings, over Adam's head. Sitting on a natural shelf in the rock was a dingy mirror, and Prudence finger-combed her hair in it before smiling through the redness of her nose and eyes. This is a world that, despite its cheap furniture, dingy apartments and grubby walls hung with fading pictures, is still full of desires and ideals. Inside were three cameras, seven pairs of binoculars, camouflage paint, seven radios and an inflatable dingy, compressed into something almost the size of a backpack. Toting a satchel containing lye soap, a grater, and a red-rubber hose, she visits their dingy apartments, where she administers a toxic abortifacient. That night, I dreamed of a square, three-story, concrete building that was dark and dingy with filth, dust, and cobwebs. In that relationship, the lower-class king of his dingy domain is enthroned atop a commode and uses a toilet brush as a scepter. I had returned to London on the Tuesday before the big match, with fifty quid in my pocket and the promise of a couch to doss on in some old friend's dingy Zone 4 dive. I had haunted its dingy subterranean corridors myself in my youth. Mr Hewitt recalls that family members who came to wave them off had to pay a penny each for a platform ticket and said York station in those days was very dingy and grubby. A gang chased him into a dingy block of flats and knifed him to death. The broad lofty walls were hung here and there with dingy paintings, and curtains, once splendid and gaudy, but now mouldering, dusty and dull, swept in massive folds from the ceiling to the floor. Ken pulled up in front of what looked like a dingy old hotel, but by this time even though I'd been sleeping in the car I knew that any bed would do me fine. On a cold, foggy night On Feb 26, 1998 I walked out a dingy hotel in handcuffs. Show More Sentences We stopped at the main desk of the dingy motel, one my mother would not have been happy with, and waited while Jimmy registered and checked us in. He has a majestic view of the dingy back entrance of a Hilton hotel. Woke up feeling illish and to my despair found it was pouring with black, cold rain. It all looked depressing and dingy. Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles. Established in 1886 the Trent valley sailing club is one of two clubs that use the river for dingy sailing, regattas, and events. The man on Zeke's side had a scrabbly black beard and wore a dingy baseball cap low over his beady eyes. He flung his shoes across the room, their soles leaving black scuffs on the dingy wall. I didn't want to write some dingy, whingey music about being middle-aged, I wanted to say hallelujah to the world. I didn't want to write some dingy, whingey music about being middleaged, I wanted to say hallelujah to the world. To that dingy fuliginous Operative, emerging from his soot-mill, what is the first duty I will prescribe, and offer help towards? That he clean the skin of him. That's why I am taking my business from the dingy confines of my old bank with their sleepyheads behind the windows and giving it to another bank. While all oysters may produce a dingy pearl, the pearl oyster that is famous for making the round gemstones isn't, biologically speaking, an oyster. Thrilly jolts of ecstasy electrified his junkie loins. His fancy-prancy equine stride took him a half block down the ghetto street into the dingy foyer of a tenement building. He crosses the canal on an iron footbridge, walks along a trafficky road, negotiates a roundabout, passes down some dingy back streets, and arrives at the Apple Tree. From dingy dungeon to terrible torture chamber, murder holes to garderobes, Warwick has all the authentic ingredients of a medieval castle steeped in adventure. Dingy sailing is well underway at the club as new sailors complete their training courses and join in the fun. Dingy wooden buildings are piled together haphazardly, rising three stories and hanging over the unpaved mud street, if you insist on calling it that. Examples from Classical Literature The stranger stared at the cottager, and then at the dingy walls of the hut. The stove, with its perspective all awry, was tame and precise, and in colour as dingy as mire. Mrs. buncher had made an effort to brighten up her dingy parlor since her new lodgers took possession of it. The carcajou burrowed down till only the tip of her dingy tail was visible before she found the object of her search. When young the plants are generally snowy white throughout, changing with age to a dingy white or cinereous hue. A decayed silk curtain of a dingy blue, drawn across a recess, separated the chambre a coucher from the salon. He drew his son into a little, low-browed, dingy room at the end of the hall. All of the dingy street was ugly, but the greater part of it appeared to be honest. None of them are muddy, or metallic, or dingy, as are too many blues and lavenders. The green bean is of huge size, and varies in color from green to dingy brown. I pushed with all my might and, slowly and jerkily, the dingy slid off the shoal. But it was the half-cotton fabric, dingy and napless, considered good enough for summer wear, in which Ben was arrayed. The building was a dingy yellow-brick residence outside the village, with the schoolroom as an outbuilding of lath and plaster. The caterpillar is dingy ochreous or whity brown marked with wavy darker stripes. He went to the Wyandotte, to Craig's tawdry, dingy sitting-room, its disorder now apparently beyond possibility of righting. I'm a dingy old shadow in a daguerreotype picture, in pantalets, cuddled up against my mother's hoopskirt. During our perambulation we came to some machinery and bulkheads, etcetera, which were dingy in colour. To Toni, spending her life in dingy Brixton, this afternoon was a red-letter day. His linen was reproachable, his dingy boots were down at heel, and his cocked hat was drab with dust. The side next the sun is often dingy, brownish, or ochreous red. Show More Sentences I got the dingy out, and was sculled quietly down by one of the men. Sleep held him until daylight seeped in through the one dingy window. It was there also that she ate, keeping her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use. We must live in one of these pokey, dingy houses for ever and ever. Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery. The low ceiling, smoke-blackened and dingy, was pierced by several square trap-doors with rough-hewn ladders leading up to them. They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. These are dingy, screeching elves, their tiny faces seared and withered, their baby laughter cracked and hoarse. Kimble, hesitating, however, to take those dingy clothes into contact with her own ornamented satin bodice. Better the floor than this dingy feather couch of suffocation. All round were dingy mangroves that overlapped and hid the entrance. They both spoke to the dingy dresser by name, calling him Parkinson, and asking for the lady as Miss Aurora Rome. You mean we'll be in some horrible boardinghouse, in a still more horrible hall bedroom, looking out on a dingy back yard. Wragge alone, attired in a voluminous brown holland wrapper, with a limp cape and a trimming of dingy pink ribbon. All the ugly, dingy little urchins that I know have been invited. The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green. I found the academy established in a sufficiently dingy house at the corner of an archway, with busts in all the staircase windows. Giry, in her faded shawl, her worn shoes, her old taffeta dress and dingy bonnet. The stairs that ascend to the garret are pestiferous and dingy. Isobel was given a dingy basement room with only a single Yale lock with a broken snib as security. Show More Sentences The windows got streaky and the inside of the store looked dingy and cold. It is a dingy city, and I think it must certainly be insanitary. Differs from C. stipitaria in adnate gills and dingy pileus. Gedalyeh Mindel flung open the door of a dingy, airless flat. Victor sat on the amidships thwart of the dingy, with his back to me. The writing was cramped and blotted and the paper cheap and dingy. When it passed Miss Tita was there still, but the transfiguration was over and she had changed back to a plain, dingy, elderly person. The few ornaments were new, and not at all dusty or dingy or tawdry. In some dingy corner, perhaps, in some damp kennel which is supposed to be a room, an artisan has just awakened from sleep. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. In the absorbing contemplation of the scarlet letter, I had hitherto neglected to examine a small roll of dingy paper, around which it had been twisted. As he sat in the dingy, little backroom of the bank, while Robinson's pen scratched busily drawing up the papers, he was conscious of an odd thrill. The gallery and pit were fairly full, but the two rows of dingy stalls were quite empty, and there was hardly a person in what I suppose they called the dress-circle. She locked herself in and walked mechanically, with a woman's first impulse in a strange bedroom, to the rickety little table and the dingy little looking-glass. He said that presently the commuters have to experience the dirty dingy ride on of the old Peshawar transport facilities, whether it be a noisy rickshaw or crowdy local bus. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of dingy? Words that rhyme with dingy What is the plural of dingy? What is the adverb for dingy? What is the adjective for dingy? What is the noun for dingy? Translations for dingy Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words dinguses dingus dings dingoes dingo Dingle dining dining-hall dining room dining-room dining table dink 5-letter Words Starting With d di din ding