Ma rolls the wheelchair back so we have enough space to slide out of the pew without tripping or brushing against the wheels of her chair and dirtying up our holy dresses. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Octavian shot him a dirty look, then turned to the crowd and smiled like this was all his idea. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Now I was dirty, I was running out of money. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And those bright angels were youths in dirty corduroy trousers, some study-raddled and some learning the small vices of their fathers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said, as the other kids began to give me dirty looks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"Men, brothers! Give the brother a chance . . ." "He looks like a dirty fink to me. A first-class enameled fink!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I said, basketball season equals war, and my family has the dirtiest tactics. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As she was closing the dirty white picket gate behind her, Agnes touched her arm and handed her a note. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

X-Ray looked at him with half-opened eyes behind his dirty glasses. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When the animals came back, they were saddened to see that the water had been so dirtied. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A portrait had fallen off the desk into a basket of dirty laundry. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They were all kinds of men—literate men and ignorant men, clean men and dirty men—but all of them had restlessness in common. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I scratched one on the face, bit the other on his fat, dirty hands. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You’re a dirty liar and I hate it and I hate this.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Their house was total chaos, babies screaming all the time, diapers everywhere, dirty burp cloths thrown over the backs of couches and chairs. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We loaded our dirty clothes into pillowcases and lugged them down the hill and up Stewart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a faded Miami Heat basketball jersey and dirty khaki shorts, and here was the odd part: no shoes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up and saw them sniggering, hiding their smiles in their dirty hands. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Why are you playing with Mi Shi when I told you not to get dirty? she says. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She saw the dirty little diner, filled with light in a dark city. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Me? Come with you? I hate witchcraft! Go away, you dirty zombies! Get out of Resthaven—and take this with you!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Clotho was hobbling by, gripping five dirty cups by their lips. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“How can you read with all those colors floating around?” asks Michelle, the girl with the dirty book. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Callie pushes past me and gives me a dirty look before running after my best friend. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you want long dirty smelly hair or cute short clean hair like a sweet girl? Which do you want?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a swarm of dirty children playing in the gutter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He broke up with her. Janae really liked him, and he dropped her like a sack of dirty laundry. So I see how you Darcy boys do,” I say, crossing my arms. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And then he had his dirty little say. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bare feet so dirty I thought at first he wore shoes or socks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I simmered as the thief rubbed the queen with his dirty fingers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, the water is thick and dirty, and a group of mermaids tangled in garbage and seaweed swim toward me, their long hair floating all around their faces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Byron never looked at me the whole time but Buphead was giving me enough dirty looks for both of them. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Saturn Rings was the kind of seedy and dirty place that made you want to dunk your whole body in a giant bottle of hand sanitizer. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t want to be dirty like you!” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still going full speed, and almost to the street, Gerald could see a long black Cadillac approaching from the left and a dirty green Ford coming from the right. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As dirty as he was, he almost hated to scrub away the smells of musky tiger cub, souring goat’s milk, thick creek mud, and salty Sunderbans water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The one she was thinking of was nothing like this one; it had been small, and dark, and dirty. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Stained? What are you—is that why you send others to do your dirty work for you? You won’t touch us normal people?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Shocked, Eleanor sat up and looked; her feet were dirty, and her nails were painted bright red. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they returned, though, they found that the water was dirtied—somebody had been drinking from it in their absence. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Her disposition toward life was that of an elite athlete who knows the opponent is dirty and the refs are on the take, but also knows the championship is one game away. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Katherine gives me another dirty look while Mr. Gideon packs away his implements and I shrug and give her an apologetic grin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She stared down at her own bare, dirty feet, which stood so close to the fancy white shoes of the mistress. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, “Men never know when things are dirty or not;” and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, “Women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Archie repelled him in many ways but most of all by the way he made everybody feel dirty, contaminated, polluted. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s still snow on the ground, a dirty filigree, though the winter is losing its hardness and glitter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His long white candyfloss hair was dirty and unkempt. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Getting dirty. Some of the young ladies don’t care for the dirt.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was longer than it had seemed when it was dirty. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“A buttermilk bath. My grandmother used to bathe her pig with buttermilk when it got dirty—I just remembered.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even the dirty water from the process is used to make animal feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That’s, like, the dirtiest word an accountant can possibly say to his kid. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at their dirty English mouths. ‘Astonishing move by Biafra’ indeed!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My boys are well trained. We are not like those dirty rebels you people called an army.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But her desire to stay alive was stronger than her desire to stay clean, and our robot decided it was time she got dirty. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Circles so dark around his eyes, he looks like a skinny raccoon with a dirty beard. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

To prevent burglars and vandals from breaking in, we’d hang laundry on the clothesline and put dirty dishes in the sink. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are ten skylights and ten dirty old tarps. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We looked a sight, dirty, uncombed, bruised from sleeping on the hard floor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce snuffled into her sleeve, leaving her nose dirty and red and no drier than it was. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was older than Mother, with white wisps of hair escaping a dirty mob cap. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People saying that my father was a dirty cop and asking why everybody cared so much about me when my dad shot a kid for the same reason years ago. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’s staring at the book cover like it’s a dirty magazine. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The dank, dirty, brown room suddenly vibrated with sound and possibility and the sweet scent of Faith. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

So low you have to rock yourself a few times to build momentum to get up, but it’s not dirty. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were times in the telling when Katie had to use words which were considered dirty but she used them bravely and unflinchingly because she knew no other words. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai asked one evening, as he watched the She Elephant dump dirty plates into the pot of boiling water. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Anxiously he clicked to the second frame, and what he saw was no less discouraging: a dirty bare foot. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brown stubble covered his sunken cheeks and receding chin, and strands of dirty hair hung across his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then there is behavioral residue, which is defined as the inadvertent clues we leave behind: dirty laundry on the floor, for instance, or an alphabetized CD collection. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The first thing I do when I get to the nest of the Court of Shadows is tie Prince Cardan to a chair with shredded pieces of my own dirty dress. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They’d make a slave of me that day, stripping cloak and tunic off me, throwing around me the dirty rags you see before you now. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mere platform of boards, covered with damp and dirty rushes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the towel, the meticulous Nye listed in his notebook: “One dirty pillow, ‘Souvenir of Honolulu’; one pink baby blanket; one pair khaki trousers; one aluminum pan with pancake turner.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was too proud to show up dirty. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He’s large across the shoulders, wearing a dirty brown jacket. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her natural hair color is dirty blond like mine, but she colors it. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He returned to his tent, put his dirty clothes in his crate, got out his pen and box of stationery, and headed to the rec room. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I wrote about the peanut and said it was small, round, and dirty. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that much fun, having a Care. Teaching them everything—swimming and reading. It’s hard. And some part of them is always dirty or dripping. They break things. They smell.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He left West Boston and, skirting dirty Mill Cove, came at last into his own North Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could scarcely believe the sight before him—Rome’s beautiful princess, her hair dirty, tangled, and uncombed, her clothes draggled and torn, her face thin and wild. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yes, there was a handful of Duck fans who really did give us dirty looks throughout the game. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Under the dirty window was a stone sink, where the old man was pouring something with a shaky hand from a large bottle into a smaller one. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede straightened, brushing off her dirty hands on her cotton trousers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dinah had been out in the woods all night, but her clothes weren’t dirty at all. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Hillsdale was upon her before she knew it, a tangled, disorderly mess of dirty houses and crooked streets. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? I’m just looking at dirty pictures.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to climb aboard as well and he shoots me a dirty look. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He fumbled with his hands to say ‘Darling Mary’ and then held to the small brass cross tied to his neck with a dirty string. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The part I liked best was when I went with Father to pick up the dirty laundry and deliver the clean. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stack of dirty pots rises from a sink, and a kettle of water boils on the stove. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She wasn't scared to get dirty, and she could run and fight and throw as good as a boy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

No e-mails, no instant messaging—not only couldn’t we afford a computer at home, but Mamá worried that we didn’t understand how to distinguish our real-life friends from dirty old men. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She has us bring old shirts of our fathers from home so we can do messier art without getting our clothes dirty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

How much better sundown would be than the end of a day in the restaurant, where a good day’s work was marked by the number of dirty plates and the weight of the garbage bin. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know I could ever get so dirty. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The man’s clothes are tattered and so dirty there’s no telling what color they were originally. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Amá laughs when I tell her that I think he’s giving us dirty looks. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I slip the dirty wipe into a sandwich bag to throw away later. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

After several hours of confused shivering, he wrapped himself in a dirty plastic tarp he found on the street and waited for morning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Travers extended two fingers and shook Ron’s hand as though frightened of dirtying himself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Boys look at me dirty. They say dirty things and they laugh. They do things.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He walked on tiptoe from room to room, because his feet felt dirty, and as he did so he grew increasingly determined to please Master, to stay in this house of meat and cool floors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A man was at the bottom, pounding his way up, his eyes all fire set in a dirty, scratched face. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In quick, light motions, it nibbled at my lips with its dirty beak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“That was Ms. McPhillips,” she said, and she peered inside one of the mugs like there was something dirty in it, then put it in the sink. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

These colors look a little dirty, like the squares in a paint box when you forget to rinse the brush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Toby looked at the dirty Deuce floor, trying not to feel the weight of Jimmy’s stare. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Against the sound of the train clacking along, the waiters were jabbering the customers’ orders, the cooks operated like machines, and five hundred miles of dirty pots and dishes and silverware rattled back to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After finishing the flowers, she cleaned the doves’ dirty feathers with a coat of fresh white enamel. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

If you weren’t a little dirty at the end of the day, you weren’t much of a man. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I took out my knife, opened it, wiped off the blade and pared off the dirty outside surface of the cheese. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’m pleased that he’s not afraid to work, to get his hands dirty, unlike so many men from his circle. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you must have found it very damp and dirty. I wish you may not catch cold.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Hear his wicked laugh, so mean and dirty it makes my stomach freeze up and my knees feel squishy. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Layla,” she said, “why don’t you go find us some more blankets and clothes. I’d rather not lay the boys on this dirty floor. And maybe a few granola bars or something.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Between them the ground was bare and the naked chalk showed a pallid, dirty white under the cream-colored elder bloom. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was narrow and dirty; nothing could alter its dimensions, no labor could ever make it clean. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was too tired and sad and dirty to feel relieved. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or a sadness so deep, like your very core has been hollowed out and fed back to you from a dirty bucket? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The friend was now becoming angry, but he ran back to the river and washed the dirty feet again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

There had been no rules against playing dirty. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The roads were brown with sand and clear of snow, the driving dirty but easy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He stared down at my dirty clothes, my skinniness, the squirming bundle at my back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The idea he put forth was that a testing moratorium would halt research into making H-bombs safer, thereby leaving the United States with an obsolete “dirty” nuclear arsenal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I can’t help it. He’s a rat now. I’m just treating him like the dirty, rotten, slimy rat that he is.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat the boy down and pulled off his shoes and pulled off the dirty rags with which his feet were wrapped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He takes the dirty, cracked light out of the plastic bag. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was made of dirty stone, with only one lone window, and just barely visible in the window was what looked like a birdcage. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

A dirty wind purled them away and there was only the screaming, the hateful twisted faces, and...the truth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And at each call a little group separates itself off, a small handful of dirty, pallid soldiers, a dreadfully small handful, and a dreadfully small remnant. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She whispered with Kimmie, and the two of them shot me dirty looks. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I poured coffee and tea, served oyster loaf and Indian pudding, carried the dirty dishes back to Eliza, and tried to keep the floor swept clean. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He screamed something without words and flung the papers and paints into the dirty brown water. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was looked after by a male nurse named Rojas, a heavyset man with a round face, who always wore a dirty blue smock and was endowed with enormous kindness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But that room was not very dirty,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moose watched all this play out on my face, a dirty boy tangled in the roots of an upended tree, hiding from the world, hiding from memories of a family and days without pursuit. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then I gave Seanie a dirty look and nonchalantly scratched the bridge of my nose with my middle finger. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You become sparkling clean, but the water never gets dirty. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the music turns dirty. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hid the liquor inside my shoes in the bedroom closet, in the bathroom dirty clothes hamper, in the laundry room, and in other secret places. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had a sense of having been dirtied and initiated. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He has dirty orange hair and freckles covering his I whole body. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was so torn and dirty and full of holes that it barely resembled a dress anymore. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The roofs of the cabins were heaped with snow, and dirty mounds of it were piled up on the sides of the streets. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The girls giggled to see their dad in the back seat, still in his work clothes, dirty and sweating—as much from the stress of the decision as from the day’s work. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got to make it believable,” she’ll say, and I find myself reaching for that dirty glass a hundred times to wash it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Of course the shoes will soon be dirty from dust of the milpita, but that is good. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

This soon covered his feet and made them dirty again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They were not the kind his mother would let sit at her table with dirty hands to handle her salt and pepper shaker angels. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was a nondescript shade of dirty cloth now. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The first man Jeanne saw was thin, with long, dirty yellow hair, a patchy yellow beard, and a face like a weasel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His shirt and jeans were rumpled and dirty, his red hair a tangled mess. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Come on, let’s go swimming. I’m dirty and I want waaaaater!” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Charley, who still had vestiges of his Chicago grooming, waded in the water and became his old dirty self again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a dirty shift, and she had bruises all over her arms. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was singularly unattractive until she smiled, and then the lines around her eyes and mouth which made her look perpetually dirty disappeared, and her face looked like the mask of an impish elf. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hurry along noisy, dusty streets that get twistier and dirtier as we move along, leaving the house far behind. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The quilts that cover the dining table are dirty. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the thousands of times the Doctorita called me a dirty bnga are being stirred up into a whirlwind of old, painful insults. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that his dirty looks mattered, since Ivan couldn’t see him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They were dirty and festooned with cobwebs and their faces were grim. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Paper remade from wilted, dirty, hopeless litter that had been rescued, scrubbed clean, and reshaped. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The dirty dogs let Byron get away with not doing his share of the windows and I had to do the whole car myself. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were known everywhere to be the most self- pitying, least fraternal, and dirtiest of all prisoners of war, said Campbell. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The FBI describes him as a "dirty rat" and a "snappy dresser." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Vin walks inside the gym where he spent the past seven years training to become the next world heavyweight champion, the smell of sweat and dirty sneakers bringing back countless memories. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Meme swallowed her blush, absorbed her tribulation, and even managed a natural smile as she asked him the favor of leaving it on the railing because her hands were dirty from the garden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Soon everyone and everything inside was covered with a layer of greasy soot, but the stove provided much-needed warmth, and the men were beyond caring how dirty they were. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

There was a wet, dirty sack on the porch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he feels trapped and panic sets in, he loses control and dirties himself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline would remark mildly that my fingernails were dirty. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, the wretched boy dirtied his pants, which caused a storm later on upstairs with the Matron. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are dirty and weak, feral and hungry-looking, like I’ve wandered into the den of some wild, desperate pack with Max as their leader. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My legs in the dirty bandages, stuck straight out in the bed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was the one who was ugly, dirty, poor, and drunk. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what if there were rotting peaches in the fridge and dirty dishes in the sink? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Lying on that bright, dirty bed, he looked so skinny and white and squinty and scared, I could practically hear his silent screams about having nothing to live for. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It had grown longer over the winter and was the color of dirty dishwater. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Something there, the steam, the dirty water, the soap, something there had caused this to happen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Rado and I helped him hop back to shore, where we tied his Dolphins jersey around his foot to keep the cut from getting dirty. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I walk us along back rooms and even past the boys’ locker room, which smells like bleach and dirty socks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With that, I slide into the passenger seat of his old and dirty car. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

No look that makes you feel dirty afterward. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all ghettos, Spanish Harlem looks better in the dark when everything broken and dirty is hidden by darkness and the moonlight makes everything else glow like pearls. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The paper was stretched tight between us, like two stubborn dogs who refused to let go of a dirty sock. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was home, in his daughter Nademah’s room, under her covers, looking through the window at a dirty white sky. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Light-blue cloth a shirt, perhaps jumbled up with something dirty white. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a lot of potatoes,” I said, looking at about five pounds of dirty stones on the counter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She never suggested that I was dirty or that I stank. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately above rose the Lhotse Face, a vast, tilted sea of ice that gleamed like dirty chrome in the dawn’s slanting light. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He rides Amtrak to Boston and then switches to a commuter rail, his duffel bag stuffed with course books and dirty laundry. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Toby knew he was fighting dirty, but he didn’t understand why Luke held him to a different standard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her violin mostly sat on a shelf these days, calling out to her, almost mocking her as she washed endless piles of dishes and dirty diapers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As I made my way through the noisy, crowded, dirty streets, I remembered what Osh had said about New Bedford making me dissatisfied with our island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But she just stares down at her bare feet, black-soled because her floors haven’t been scrubbed since she moved in this big old dirty house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, I brought him his change from paying his gas bill and he said: ‘Put it here in my pocket; my hands are dirty,’ ” John said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, too, was a wild child, dirty and ragged, his hair a long mass of tangles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I would have given my cousin a dirty look and gone on with my reading if it hadn't been for the magnificent creature he had created. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The dirty little children didn’t do that, but they threw their orders around the Store like lashes from a cat-o’-nine-tails. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The train disappeared over the horizon; all that was left was thick, dirty smoke. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few tourists stood in wonder by the quay and saw how the setting sun glazed the dirty water with gold. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two were taking turns giving each other dirty looks as my bus pulled out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She cared nothing for railroads, those dangerous, dirty things. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He poured the dirty liquid into a jar and closed it up. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dad had stopped by a couple of times in the last week to collect dirty clothes, but I didn’t want to deal with it, so I sent him away. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have to think too hard about it; candles were expensive and vulnerable to drafts, torches were dirty and dangerous. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look at their dirty, wrinkled faces and ask, “Where is Tatarska Street?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

What if my parents force me to live in their dirty house without rice or meat or books or a TV? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flooded into my present, and only tact kept me from burying my face in the dirty laundry overfilling the hamper by her dresser. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Off I dashed to find my beautiful ballerina picture inside my old, dirty clothes on the bathroom floor. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed other incoming freshmen into Wilson Gym, which smelled like dirty socks. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Soweto was seen as the snobbish township and Alexandra was seen as the gritty and dirty township. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The veil of security I thought the uniform provided had been lifted, and now we hustled in our black dress shoes and stained wool pants through dirty fields and grassy yards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He says, “No. My parents love it when I get dirty.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“You are the dirtiest of the dirty faces,” she had said, laughing, in reply, and given him the first bath he ever had. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The room smelled like wax, candles, oil lamps, tobacco, burning stove wood, whiskey, dirty clothes, and leather boots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somewhere down there, Montez lay in a hospital bed, or maybe on some dirty floor, unconscious and wounded. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But as a compensation the cap is too small, a terribly dirty, mean little pill-box. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We've all got to use the rocks again. This place is getting dirty." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Or the black-dust blizzard of 1923—remember that?—when dirty snow blew down from North Dakota, seven-foot snowdrifts covered entire sections of the city, and people didn’t leave their houses for weeks? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She gave Sinjin a dirty look and he blew her a kiss. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He hated Sam Westing and his dirty money and his dirty game. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It uncurled upon a nickel, moist and dirty, moist dirt ridged into her flesh. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always so neat and now his tuxedo jacket was dirty as though he had been lying in the gutter and his derby hat was bashed in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between strokes of the switch she would ask me where had I learned the dirty words and I could not tell her; and my inability to tell her made her furious. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I met children there in dirty clothes with no shoes and only a small bag of possessions. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She passed us a chunk of bread and cheese, and the público driver gave her a dirty look. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Together they stood waiting, panting slightly, breathing in the smell of the dirty river that was carried to them on the night breeze. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I was dirty and annoyed by the time I reached prison, and my irritation was aggravated by the fact that I was put in a single cell with this fellow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the way down the hall to class people were giving me dirty looks. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was born in the poorest quarters of the city, because of the harsh winter, the malnutrition, and the dirty water, and it joined forces with the unemployment and spread in every direction. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had on a blue striped head rag and a dirty faded old feed-sack dress that blew in the wind against her knobby legs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His stockings were torn and dirty and his doublet unlaced. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I read my history textbook for a while, but my consciousness felt like a camera with a dirty lens, so I decided to text Davis. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She simply asked the house help, Agnes, to leave some food in the pot for him and to clear away dirty plates from his room. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Night and day, people—dirty, sweaty, hungry, thirsty, scared like me—press against each other, people from all over. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Crowded thoughts of blood, words, and the dirty kitchen floor. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You mentioned during the course of your testimony these ‘dirty looks’ Mr. Miyamoto is supposed to have aimed at your mother-in-law. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girl wore a peasant blouse and a nondescript ankle-length skirt; her calloused and dirty feet were bare. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They got super dirty, so I, uh ...” I trailed off, making a point of noticing the document on his computer screen. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I asked myself as I watched them lie shamelessly to the dirty old man. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything to me, he didn’t even give me a dirty look. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing is, the shameful thing—he never made her feel like she was the dirty water going down the bathtub drain. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had left the town far behind by now, and was going past dirty, closed lunch stands and torn signs. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose Americans like to have dirty butts? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Or at your husband? Did I hear you say he aimed dirty looks at your husband? Or is it just something your mother-in- law reported as having occurred?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She poked the soil with her knife until she found the dirty, thick root of the plant. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But cats were different, if one of them survived the hospital it’d come out and give you a dirty look and be a lot meaner than it was before it went in. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scrubs till my skin burns and tells Dad she wouldn’t give it to the world to say her son went on the altar dirty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

To my mind she was same as saying that Granny was a dirty housekeeper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A tall man with the floppy ears of a rabbit and a mane of walnut-brown hair turns to give Vivi a dirty look. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like him, they dressed shabbily, looked dirty, smelled bad, and were desperate for food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Your mouth dirties it. It is a blasphemy upon your tongue.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“One last thing. Quick. A suitcase, get it, fill it with your dirtiest clothes, an old suit, the dirtier the better, a shirt, some old sneakers and socks...” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Palmetto players got down and dirty right away, and their fans cheered them on. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next night, Bob slept under some dirty hay near the Big Top Mall garbage bins. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Two long panes of chest-high, dirty, gray-tinted Plexiglas lean against each other at an acute angle, held up on the other side by the wooden wall. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I find it in the bottom of my closet—only a little bit dirty—and slide it on. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

We’d have a new apartment with pale cream carpets that never got dirty and modern wallpaper with no flowers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She asked me to guard the door while she puked lunch into the dirty mall toilet. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

"Come on! Own up! Step forward! You won’t escape this time! Who is responsible for this dirty job! Who pushed over this glass!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were a ragged-looking lot of men, their clothing dirty and torn and most of them not even having proper uniforms. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the dirty window there was the brilliant midsummer countryside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And someone had beaten their dirty rugs right in the hallway, because my red bedroom curtain was gray with dust. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jennifer had to do the dirty work, weighing me in my tattered yellow robe to make sure I stayed fat. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I see her listening to Miss Leefolt call me dirty, diseased. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I love you,” I say again, looking at my dirty floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I got Fred to protect me from you dirty old men.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond them, a frozen expanse of gray, dirty ice, the snow whisking across it in wispy curls and then disappearing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Behind the dirty lenses, the eyes were a piercing, brilliant blue. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We got so dirty playing outside all day that we bathed nightly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He still gave me dirty looks across the room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When we kids played around the mule barn, we peeked through its dirty, screened windows to look at the ghostly stalls and the ancient harnesses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She put all the dirty towels in a pile beside the bed and said, “Now you look perfectly handsome again. There’s no concussion, so you won’t have to stay here tonight....” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He wiped his face with one dirty hand and looked angrily at Jonas, defying him to disagree. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m hairy, ugly, dirty, stooped, snaggle-toothed, and gray. And also I feel sick from the radiation; I think I’m going to die.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Joseph picked up one of the dirty dishes on the table, but his uncle stopped him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She bathed, feeling almost as dirty as she had in Endovier, and was grateful for the gentle servants who attended her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The corn was a curious, dirty beige colour in the early light, and very still. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I looked at the dirty ginseng specimen O’Dell handed me, thinking of God and whatever angels He had assigned to the BCMA. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged his dirty clothes hamper from the closet and dumped it on the floor. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thou shall not be dirty” and “Thou shall not be impudent” were the two commandments of Grandmother Henderson upon which hung our total salvation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that Father had, been right: they looked tired and wet and cold and dirty from the mud that came up from the bottom on the nets. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So who was this boy, with his curly black hair and seemingly never-ending, muscled legs, dressed in athletic shorts and dirty sneakers, standing there with that annoying smirk on his face? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Go back to the swamp, you dirty punk!” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A mob of men followed him up the slope, dirty and ' dented and grinning, with Theon and the Greatjon at their head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The guest knew that this was right, but he could not understand why his feet were so dirty after he had washed them so carefully. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He lined it with bits of dirty newspapers and rags, and whenever he found a trinket or a keepsake he carried it home and stored it there. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Would she admit it if it was dirty?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she didn’t like to get her blouse dirty or risk tearing her anacos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke gave him a dirty look, and Toby laughed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I sit in corners, at tables, on dirty couches, and on the front steps, getting lost in the pages of books. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I offered to run extra laps on the smelly dirty track above the pool; anything they asked I would have done,” Massari says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Decon it, baby! You don’t know if any dirty needles have been stuck in those bottles. Everything comes out of this building! Everything comes out!” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We followed her underground like baby mice to the Green Line and the Red Line, until we popped out on a dirty street in crowded Harvard Square. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Just before he steps outside, he throws me a dirty look. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be right to leave them on the floor or step on them with dirty feet. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The workers from the clean sections weren’t allowed in the dirty sections, and the workers from the dirty sections weren’t allowed in the clean sections. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A man with only a shirt, and it was very dirty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Those people who gave me dirty looks or the parents who signed that finale petition on the training room door. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Cooking is women’s work, same as sewing. Act like a man, Robbie. Go outside and get your hands dirty. You don’t start toughening up, I might have to drown that cat of yours.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I go inside, covered in sweat, I pass Oak, who is running somewhere, dragging my stuffed snake after him on a dirty rope. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“All right. Consider it done. I’ll make the fireproof pouch tonight at the loom, when I’ve cleaned up. But what can I do now, while my hands are dirty?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was dirty, and at night it would get very cold. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole place, even in the dark, felt more than looked dirty. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He’s so skinny and dirty that he’s putting himself at risk for typhoid, which is rampant in the community. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The younger man came out with a dirty cardboard box and set it on the counter. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Now I have to call every local business and tell them about this scout. Stop him before he does his dirty work.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Luke leaned his head out from the kitchen and shot Toby a dirty look. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After all, they can’t let the Russians do all the dirty work; actually, the Russians aren’t doing anything at the moment either. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was dirty and had been folded very small and tied in place with a piece of tape. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

These dirty, devil things that would give the sweet Baby Jesus doll nightmares in his cradle? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a dirty communiss. Them people want to set up a police state.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty dishes were dropped into a hot washer and emerged twinkling dry. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in tattered clothing and his face was dirty, a red gash taking up most of his cheek. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Without a change of clothing, his garments quickly became dirty, ruining a key element of Booth’s trademark, winning style—his beautifully dressed, well-groomed appearance. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Anglo kids called de la O and his friends “spies,” and “dirty, lazy Mexicans.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

No branch, no pin, only the dirty, heaving water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She could hear Agnes’s little scurrying steps behind her; then there was a dirty hand on her arm. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He removed the dirty card from the ragged envelope. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They were so just talking about you!” said Maya, giving them her dirtiest look through her black-framed glasses. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A dirty, shirtless boy lay with an arm resting over a toddler girl. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The storm had buried every hut and hovel beneath a mound of dirty snow, and the drifts would soon be deep enough to engulf the longhall too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s dirty and smelly, and it’s crowded with strange people. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Zero glanced at him, then went over to the crates, where he deposited his dirty clothes and towel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The shorter man holds his back at first, as if not wanting to dirty her hand, but finally, after wiping it on the side of his pants, he gives it to Yolanda. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was a photograph of the house, cracked in the corners and dirty with many hands. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The dirty water stung my eyes and I squeezed them shut. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her dirty wrapper was not knotted properly, and one end trailed in the dirt as she walked, carrying a tray mounded with bits of fried beef. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And there were sections of the city where different foreigners lived—Japanese, White Russians, Americans, and Germans—but never together, all with their own separate habits, some dirty, some clean. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman looked young, but like all the women was fully dressed in dirty and bloodstained clothes so whatever funny business you expect in a war hadn’t happened here other than murder in cold blood. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mall was the final coup de grace for the downtown area, taking with it the Sears and the Penney’s and leaving behind the dirty bookstores. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could they be anything else but dirty? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had kidnapped her, right out of the middle of her very own wood, and now she would be expected to sleep —all night—in this dirty, peculiar house. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch with fascination as children with oily black hair, wearing old, dirty clothes run up to our cyclo in their bare feet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he used his fists, but that night he grabbed the dirty skillet off the stove. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When we got there I was wore out, and the heat and burning oil had made a dirty brown mess out of the Pierce’s neat new engine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Some dumb rule. The idiots in charge think the indigenas don’t have good hygiene or something. Like they’ll make the pool dirty.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their hands and arms got very dirty playing in the mud. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman looked her up and down: the pack on her back, her dirty sweaty face, her wild black hair. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Are we near? the boy would wonder, as Hodor clambered up a stony slope, or descended into some dark crevice where drifts of dirty snow cracked beneath his feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s a ton of dirty pots and pans at all hours of the day.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The vest they’d left behind the night before was torn and dirty. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The windows near the ceiling were small and dirty, the old leather furniture spilled its innards, the tables were mutilated, the walls ash-colored, the floor concrete. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

His new regiment stood lined up in the snow before him while he pointed out someone’s dirty boots and a hole in someone else’s jacket. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I did not want it to get dirty and wet. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She threw the dirty rags in a gunny sack at the far end of the room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nita gave Tool a dirty look, but her knuckles were pale as she clenched her fists. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

That I hate sea-foam green, and besides, it’s none of her business if my windows are dirty? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama sure fought dirty when she wanted to. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She keeps telling us we’re still dirty and if she has to come out to scrub us we’ll rue the day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Because,” Claudette answered, her gaze level and her voice even and intense, “we were treated wrong, dirty and nasty.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Rising above the windows was a tall and dirty tower that tilted slightly to the left. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“If I thought you were dirty, you’d be holding your guts in on the floor of the Exchange like Big Bol, so stop running your mouth.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The work is hard and dirty, and my father quickly felt exhausted. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’ve mussed my hair, dirtied up my face, hidden my purse, and I have a real armband on my coat instead of one that will only bear a glance. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It's airless and hot inside and musty, like dirty laundry. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a small, dirty white cylinder of clay. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I had a change of socks and a change of underwear, too, because I didn’t want to arrive in Australia feeling too dirty. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The rat-faced rhymer picked at his teeth with a dirty claw as he turned his attention to the darkened windows of our upstairs apartment. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

After we’ve stuffed ourselves, I collect the dirty dishes, their china ones and my metal ones. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried not to give her a dirty look. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He’s still in his gardening clothes, dirty at the knees, and his hands are sandy. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I slid into the front seat with my mother and let the Gales and their dirty animals have the backseat to themselves. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she walks slowly through the rooms it irks her that there are dirty dishes stacked in the kitchen, that the bed has not been made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were dripping with sweat, and their faces were so dirty that it took Stanley a moment to notice that one kid was white and the other black. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

His fingernails were long and dirty and sharp. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she called me every single dirty name she could think of. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He says it’s okay with him as long as we don’t get the place dirty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His efforts just seemed to stir up the mud and make the water dirtier. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When I carried my dirty clothing downstairs, the girl called Libby took them and gingerly dropped them in a basket. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up with the dirty blanket wrapped around him and swayed to and fro. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I push away a small section of the heap of surprisingly dirty red stones and then peel back a corner of the torn plastic liner. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Feed the chickens and get the water and take out the dirty bucket. You know that.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, the room had a layered smell about it: sleep, unwashed linen, sweat, dirty socks, perfume, the previous night’s leftover qurma. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have any towels, so we just dried ourselves with our dirty clothes as best we could. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t the purpose of a college degree to get away from the need to work dirty and difficult jobs? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces with wide white dirty flowers and he looked out to see a battery working steadily, firing into the woods. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s one more thing people don’t know about Indians: we love to talk dirty. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least fifty people, and all of them were wearing dirty pajamas and had the same shocked expression on their faces as Ivy’s dad. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She lay on her bunk thinking of that savage mighty bear, and the careless way he drank his fiery spirit, and the loneliness of him in his dirty lean-to. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I see a future version of myself going down to Henry Street again to see Father Thomas O’Reilly I’ll be in my dirty old jacket, moneyless and cigaretteless, same as last time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The little girl watched me, holding the bread against her dirty dress. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t even look at him, even if I did see him. That’s dirty. Who wants to see a naked man?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She studied the coy girls, the ones who pretended not to get the dirty joke that made Mary Lou stifle a laugh. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He wished Melissa were fussier as he retired to the dark and dirty tunnel of her left boot. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

His feet seemed too big for his body, with cracked dirty toenails, eight toes on each foot But the top half of his body was the weird part He made Janus look downright normal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He rolled over and peered into Jack's fierce, dirty face. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But what do I do when my two best friends have both done me dirty? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“And you think we’re scum, do you?” screamed Gaunt, advancing on Ogden now, with a dirty yellow-nailed finger pointing at his chest. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A dirty bundle of rags and mud was trying to worm its way up the steps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I get these flashbacks, I feel like someone scooped my soul out and trampled it on the dirty ground. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The drunk stacked the money into a little pile on the counter, still protecting it with his big, dirty hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I open the dirty window to let in fresh air. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He smacked his lips and scratched his neck with long, dirty fingernails. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

First month I was here, I was shocked by such dirty talk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I opened the door to the locker room, I mentally braced myself for some dirty looks and insults from Will and Drew. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Or one that passed a Communications Decency Act to ban dirty language on the Internet. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Children in general? No, not really. They're so fidgety and loud, and often quite dirty.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

My dress drags on the wet and dirty floor of the handicapped stall. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They run right to him and shot me dirty looks from behind his legs. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The dirty snow was pockmarked from the warm rain, and melting in patches to expose the slimy, yellowed grass beneath it; icicles cracked and plunged like daggers from the sharp peaks of the roofs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A dirty gray dog ran out of the field near us, and then he ran back in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was dirty and bent and his clothes looked as if they were made from rags used to wash floors. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The narrow alley is empty except for some piles of refuse and the icy stains of someone’s dirty dishwater. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she noticed how much blood there was and didn’t want to get dirty. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With a dirty hand, Nettle was wiping Turner’s forehead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the animal was more than scarred and dirty; he was frantic and desperate. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The oldest, Margarita, was about ten, then three more with about three years’ difference between them down to the baby with her pacifier on a dirty ribbon round her neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job was to ferry the food up the stairs and the dirty crockery down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d seen my training bra in a pile of dirty clothes on my bedroom floor and said it wasn’t proper. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It’s cold and dirty in the barn, and they both look thin, but not ghetto thin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The ground was hard, but he was used to that....His blanket was dirty and smelled disgusting, but he was used to that too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When she tried to bite, her teeth snapped shut on cold dirty chainmail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Masses of Lithuanians with tattered suitcases and bulging bags poured out into the valley, dirty and gray with soiled clothing, as if they had lived in a gutter for years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Poppy looked tired and dirty, but I didn’t care. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked reading about explorers planting flags all over the New World and I marveled how they never looked mussed up in their pictures, although I thought exploring must be dirty work. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bigger than a horse or buffalo and it was a dark, dusty green like the color of sand dirtied from ocean foam. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty airport curtain was a great comfort and a darkness and a shield. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we go in for dinner, it looks like a tornado hit the place: dirty bowls and measuring cups are piled in the sink, and flour is all over the counter. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

A pile of newspapers sits in the corner of the living room; there are dirty mugs on the coffee table and the mantelpiece. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was beat up, dirty, and stooped with exhaustion, he’d had an aura of power. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The smell was awful, nose-filling, the smell of a dirty toilet and rancid steamed beans and boiled eggs gone bad. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Barnes wasn't as strong as Rivera or as quick as Griffin, but he was rough and dirty in the clinches. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman looks at the crowded tower room and the dirty childrens and he hears the noise outside and inside and he says, “I don’t know. It’s a bigga mess.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

That can mean only one thing at sea—dirty weather. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Votes were bought and campaigns were fixed with dirty money. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She unfolded her dirty tunic to reveal several light brown nuts tucked within its layers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His face was obscured by a mop of dirty blond hair, and something that looked like a gas mask covered his nose and mouth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He’s dumping old motor oil into the street, and now the oil is combining with the dirty bathwater to make a river of filth running down the street. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like to look at dirty pictures. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been three days since the laundry was done, so even his clean set was dirty and smelly. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Matt scratched his dirty knee with dignity and ignored her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got to jump over puddles of dirty water and busted-up furniture, piles of trash. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

A cut might not seem serious, but continually reaching into tubs of dirty water for the shells, the girls risked fatal infection. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I sat up and drew away from him, suddenly conscious of my dirty hair, soiled hands, and torn clothing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And what about the dirty dish and shower water? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Your mama will get us if you get any dirtier.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the crystal was dirty. And both you and I needed to cleanse our minds of negative thoughts.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Loft men, who also knew tile odds, spent the night dancing, drinking, dicing and telling each other dirty stories. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also there are men fighting, or about to fight, looking clean and noble, not dirty and bloodstained and smelly the way they must have looked. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where do you play to get so dirty?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Frankie got to the work bench and he put his dirty fingers on the bench. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are ragged and dirty, but these things do not hide their love. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The clean kind and the dirty kind, clean and dirty. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know my flannel skirt has a dirty mark down the front, but I’ve never walked bare-foot with a stocking round my head.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The social worker slowed and stopped beside a dirty white fence. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

With a gleeful chuckle, Hold-Your-Nose Billy dropped the ransom note and the golden crown into a dirty linen sack. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me a dirty look and pretended to spit in my direction. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As for Lola, she didn’t wish to dirty her cashmere by lying on the floor, and instead slumped in a chair, and the director could hardly object to that. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The girl crawled on all fours until she found her stick, then sprang back to her feet, bruised and dirty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If I had a cold and tied a worn, dirty sock about my throat before I went to bed, the cold would be gone the next morning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sneaks the dirty bucket down and the water bucket up every morning, as soon as Karin and Ilse are gone. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Drifts of dirty snow had piled up against the walls, filling every nook and comer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Emma gave me a dirty look and I gave her one right back. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Once more Lyddie was aware of the other girls in the room, who were watching her openmouthed and gaping at the dirty little bundle in her arms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I peeked through the dirty windows, trying to make out what was inside, when— Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Can’t mop the floor without leaving black, dirty streaks and puddles everywhere. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of a song, she’d twirl suddenly showing her stout legs in dirty white cotton stockings and a flash of multicolored petticoats. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only now he offers me water, his hot dirty water he been spitting in all day. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to use a low, dirty water fountain, right next to the high, clean one for the whites. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drank from cups dipped directly into an open pail of dirty water. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The man who moved out of the shadow and looked at me sullenly was small, wiry and very natty in his dirty overalls. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she sipped the buttered tea, she would sometimes tell about the Underground Railroad, and that first trip she made to Canada, and how all of them were ragged, hungry, dirty, cold and afraid. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My hostel in Nsukka was dirty but there were no rats o.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But people kept shooting dirty looks at her as she waited on the street. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She'd gotten quite angry and called me—despite her own accent—a dirty foreigner. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the dirty dishes in the sink and Mami stops me as I grab my chalk. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I stopped at the turn and folded my hands together on top of my head, then gave JP a dirty look. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh no. No. I got pretty dirty, but not hurt.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kick a dirty, frozen chunk of snow off the path and let him catch up. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The whole time I tried not to think how much it was killing my back and shoulders and hands, the streaks of dirty sweat running into my eyes and stinging. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The dirty, get-on-down music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shameless or apart and wild. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We aren’t doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I put the dirty dishes in the hatch, then went into the kitchen to dry. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They shoveled coal in winters, fixed broken windows, scrubbed dirty floors, and prepared lunch. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then he looked down at my dirty bare feet. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouldered the sack that contained all the dirty linen and the evil ball of hair. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would be shooting at everything that moved, and here was I in deerskin pants and dirty brown sweater, looking like a deer. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirtiest of all tricks for passive carriage is perpetrated by microbes that pass from a woman to her fetus and thereby infect babies already at birth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ghost grey, some men called the shade, but in truth his eyes were all but colorless, like two chips of dirty ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My dirty servant’s garb would rule out identification at a distance, and he’d never be close enough to see my face. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frank with his dirty clothes from a day of work on fixing their house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was a dirty trick, but it killed old Phoebe. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

One drab woman was weeping silently into a dirty dish towel. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was then the two young fugitives leaped from the smelly bundle of dirty clothes and made a run for it. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently the medical staff had been giving patients injections with dirty needles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she was, barefoot, in a dirty white frock. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As people finished off dinner and started in on dessert, Isa cleared the table of dirty dishes and was on her way to the kitchen when Mr. Van Hooten pulled her aside. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The windows of the car were dirty and rice thrown at some recent bridal pair lay scattered on the floor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want one of you falling into the lagoon,” she said, and I shuddered at the thought of touching that dirty water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Directly below him, one floor away, through a window without shades, he saw a room in which were two small iron beds with sheets dirty and crumpled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Following his gaze, he turned around to find half a dozen fellows from the shell house standing in a semicircle, holding their dirty plates out to him, grins smeared across their faces. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Eleanor pulled out the drain and carefully picked up her dirty clothes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Would he do something to make her die because her hands and arms were dirty from the mud pies? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick straightened his shoulders but took a step back, tugging at the hem of his dirty T-shirt. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“My mummy would never let me get so dirty.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Desperate and dirty though I was, the faint promise of happiness glimmered before me like sunlight through the ceiling of the forest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Yet, for all this rare color, his clothing was ragged, torn, and patched in many parts, enough so that I could see his dirty, hairy skin in several spots. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The free folk were no different than the men of the Night’s Watch; some were clean, some dirty, but most were clean at times and dirty at other times. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The top side was painted to look like the surface of water—dark, dirty water you’d never want to drop a drinking bucket into. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They sat on the pack and ate handfuls of the dirty snow. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I sent back a dirty look of my own. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

His planning suddenly seemed mean and dirty to him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has dirty blond hair gathered sloppily into a bun, strands falling randomly, attractively, around her face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So when I saw the tip of that dirty red kayak break the surface, I was ready to cry with relief. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It lives in a dirty environment, but amid the muddy pond lies a beautiful flower emerging from the water. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He lay sprawled on his bed, a lazy blob in dirty cargo pants and unlaced high-top sneakers. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their floe was soon dirty with blubber soot, dog droppings, sealskins, penguin heads, and other garbage, but the men all adjusted to a new set of standards without complaint. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We push, a huge effort, and I run right off the roof, and splash in the dirty water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Aki gazed at his knee, where his pants had gotten dirty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I squashed it down over my dirty hair, and then I was off. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She’s ashamed of the way we look with the dirty old torn shirts, raggedy ganseys, broken shoes, holes in our stockings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Who knows, your very flesh may be polluted, dirty as an oily beach, sure death to shore birds and unborn babies. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day broke, humid and overcast, with the wind warm and the sky a dense blanket of grey clouds that looked like bunched-up, dirty cot­ton sheets. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frank, who isn’t in his baseball hat and dirty work clothes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I gave him a dirty look as I complied. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were two guys in the cab, both in hardhats and dirty from work—loggers obviously. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad he did. It would dirty a beautiful moment for Angel.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were rolling pins on the bedspread, dirty cutting boards on the small table, kitchen shears on the floor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It meant walking, in my dirty, soggy socks, down the track to get my sneakers, which might've been more embarrassing than any joke anyone has ever cracked on me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There are now hundreds of horses among the dirty men. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I mean, I ignore plenty of stuff, like school spirit days and the dirty looks I get from the Detentionheads while I try to slink through the halls unnoticed. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Against the sky in the cave entrance Juana could see that Kino was taking off his white clothes, for dirty and ragged though they were they would show up against the dark night. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dirty cloud of sheep On the hill, Their faces Nibbling grass Wet with rain. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there clinging to my bucket of dirty water until she finally turned around and looked at me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I went outside and sat next to her, the cement cold through my pants, the ground mostly clear by then except for a few patches of dirty snow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He moon-lighted as a dry cleaner: He collected dirty uniforms in the parking lot at the end of the day and brought them back pressed, for which he charged $3.50 apiece. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them played the piano--strictly lousy--and the other one sang, and most of the songs were either pretty dirty or in French. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The rocks were dirty and washing them kept her calm and away from Madam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were satisfied to plant their dirty little lettuce plants in their front yards and let the rest of it sink into misery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spareribs stuck his dirty hand up to her eyes because she had been staring off at space. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The hathay was pulled by a dwarf elephant, her hide the color of dirty snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I loaf around until the company comes back in the early morning, grey, dirty, soured, and gloomy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of getting into clean clothes with dirty skin made her flesh crawl. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I burrowed down in among the dirty potatoes and held my breath. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I followed their trail—footprints, hoofprints, and wagon ruts cutting a wide dirty swath toward the east. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance down into the water, seeing myself, my hair a bird’s nest, bandage across half my head, dirtier than an old ewe. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A few indifferent ones simply draped a dirty sheet over themselves and called it a costume. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about Davis calling it a rounding error, but I still worried that it might be dirty money or that I might be exploiting Davis or...but she shushed me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His teeth were always mossy-looking, and his ears were always dirty as hell, but he was always cleaning his fingernails. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

With Blanca next to me, El Barrio seemed less dirty, life less hard, God less unjust. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Max can’t come down, so Cesia brings me the dirty bucket, crying because she thinks her mother is going to die. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His robe was tattered and dirty, but it might have been the proper grey long ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The white people still plopped their feet down into the dirty water and muddied the other clean steps. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey washed out their dirty underwear in the sink. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d seen the pictures of a bunch of really mad white people with twisted-up faces screaming and giving dirty finger signs to some Utde Negro kids who were trying to go to school. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah put her hand onto the pile and came up with a dark gray dress with a dirty white collar and cuffs. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had long red hair that fell rather greasily to her waist, and when she sidled up to Gilly on the playground, the first thing Gilly noticed was how dirty her fingernails were. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

There were dirty plates on them, coffee-stained mugs, wooden boards where cheese rinds lay, knives, sausages, empty bread baskets. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“She said black means I got a dirty, bad face.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“My brother is next. His arm is just as dirty as mine so don’t be surprised. And you don’t have to tell him. You told me.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ought to be bringing her candy bars and telling her how nice her hair looked instead of shoving her onto the dirty bus floor. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“You’re just another dirty turtle egg, like all the others,” he growled. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Right in front of us she scrubs Carol’s face with the dirty dishcloth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roof is corrugated, red, and rusty The walls are a dirty white fibro. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He came in after us, a troll-like presence in the dirty light that entered through the glazed windows. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When we got back to our boardinghouse, I felt as dirty as if I’d been riding behind the cap’n for a month. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

As I glance around, I notice a lot of the other tributes are shooting us dirty looks, which confirms what I've suspected, we've literally outshone them all. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Examining his frozen hands and feet, which had a dull whitish sheen like a dirty bathroom sink, Kamler observed grimly, “This is the worst frostbite I’ve ever seen.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“How could you? Adam Trask, a dog wolf with a pair of cubs, a scrubby rooster with sweet paternity for a fertilized egg! A dirty clod!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't want to put his dirty hands inside the box. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Three Dauntless-born initiates stand among the other worn and dirty animals. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She’d developed an especially bleak outlook on life and was dragging her depression around the house like a dirty blanket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I mean that when I’m the one doing everyone else’s dirty work, and everyone is afraid of me, I feel safe. I control what happens and to who.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She studied me distastefully, like I was a bag of dirty laundry she’d been sent to fetch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She tried again, and even worse, tried to be dirty, like going, “Come on baby, 1 want to feel you,” and all that kind of thing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, get out of here, you dirty dog!” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I roll the dirty clothes and sheets into a wicker basket and walk down to the river. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to sort out the dirty and clean clothes,” the foster mother said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When I get home Prof. Nemur and Dr. Strauss are waiting for me and they give me a beating for writing dirty things in the progress report. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Find the dirty Jew!” the voices called over and over, and I think one of the voices I heard was mine. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As we fought, they called me poor and ugly and dirty, and it was hard to argue the point. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

What’s left of any snow has melted into brown slush and runs in dirty ridges alongside the street gutters. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We talked loudly about him through the fly screen, pointed at his hairy arms, and laughed at how he pulled up his dirty pants before swinging his hoard onto his shoulders. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I wouldn’t dirty your room with the can,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nene led us into a room with a desk, two chairs, and an old, dirty sofa with a Playboy magazine stuck in between the cushions. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wish Mango were here with me, his dirty paws leaving little tracks on the white carpet. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A knot of sullen football boys trudged past us, giving us dirty looks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A dim light flickered through the dirty plate-glass window on the third floor. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks us up and down as if we are dirty. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We finally heard Miss Love pour her dirty water out of the washbowl into the waste pot on the floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes are red and puffy—I bet he cried—and his clothes are dirty, but other than that, he looks like the same boy from the resource room. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Once, it happened to Nick, who is the dirtiest kid in school, not very big, red hair. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The doctor threw him a dirty look from the rear of the room, and Yossarian made himself stop. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His shirt was dirty and the stolen clothes were wrinkled and soiled from having been slept in for a week. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No one messes with Big Mary Anne. It’s suicide. Because there’s nobody in the world that fights as dirty.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we went up there the first time I saw those little dirty diamonds in a sack in the back of the airplane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was so dirty it looked brown. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My chest hurt like hell from his dirty knees. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t mention the rumpled shirt, the dirty jeans, the unbrushed hair, the unbrushed teeth, the crazy eyes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When we were in Mirpur Khas, it was easier to tell who was who, but out here, we all looked the same in our dirty clothes. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They live at the very bottom of town, not far from a dirty, frothy creek that stems from the river. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The doña will get hot, her nice clothes will get all dirty. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Goddard stood at the front, by an altar that featured a shining two-pronged fork and a stone bowl of dirty water. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Old Lord stood there coughing and staring, a dirty grey satin robe wrapped about him, from which hung an edge of bedraggled fur. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The moment the board banked, her dirty feet skidded across the surface, spinning her halfway around. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

No, you better take the rest of these dirty things off me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Reviving, I found myself in a comer; the old man was busy dabbing my forehead with a wet, dirty sponge. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My whole family grew up at the far north of town, which is kind of like everyone’s dirty secret. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There is the mean little hut on the moors, the hard work on the heath from morning till night in the heat, the miserable pay, the dirty labourer’s clothes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stripped off my dirty travel wrap and stepped in. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

By then I had figured out it was something awful and dirty. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should clean those up so Dad doesn’t come home to dirty plates and mugs with impossible stains from all the hot chocolate I’ve been drinking. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They glanced up at Lefty but then returned to their game, ignoring his dirty clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Somehow, Daoud, you always manage to avoid getting your hands dirty," I said. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

From the far corner of the car, one of them shouted that they were tired and dirty and ready to catch the next plane home. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had on a dirty leather jacket and some greasy butt pants. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The young man strides over to the dirty window and lifts it the full six inches it will rise. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Am I in trouble for having a dirty shirt? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Chas looked around the circle of our dirty and tired teammates, and he bullet passed the ball to me and said, “Winger.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She looks up at me, like I’ve asked her to define a dirty word. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He straightened out his wet, dirty shirt, marched stiffly to the road, and vanished around the trees. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, Garfield's bullet wound had been contaminated with bacteria by his own doctors, starting with the first examination on the dirty floor of the railroad depot. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He crept down into his hole, pushed the goose egg out of the way, and returned with an old piece of dirty white string. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Among Garden City's animals are two gray tomcats who are always together—thin, dirty strays with strange and clever habits. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I overturn my hamper and riffle through dirty clothes and sheets, looking for the pants I wore four days ago. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“He fought dirty, Mac. So how ’bout shuttin’ up,” Red said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hide the paintings under my pool of dirty water before Mack can see them. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Her face was almost as dirty as her feet and she had enough hair between her legs to pass for Bracken’s sister, but there was something appealing about her all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He should be sitting beside me, holding my hand under the table, kicking my foot with his foot, turning everything into a dirty joke.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I expected to find the usual boat store, dirty and dusty with disuse, ropes and blocks and oars upon the floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a dirty, noisy place, and I was glad to leave it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake and the secretary proceeded to the dance floor and did a dirty dance, people falling back from the pair in shocked silence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he didn’t want to get them dirty. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the dirty gray light, Barry saw jagged hunks of wood, shattered glass, a twisted bicycle, a refrigerator, a stuffed penguin, a mattress covered with a pink blanket. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to put on something that dirty again, but I have no other choice. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A dirty tarpaulin flapped loudly on the roof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And the ground and the dirty buildings on either side fell away, dropping out of sight as the car rose; in seconds, the whole of London lay, smoky and glittering, below them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I kept my hands balled into fists so I couldn't axidentlly accidentally touch the wrong thing and get it dirty. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She watched him toss it onto a dirty table cluttered with empty coffee cups. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their noise was not a scandal nor their dirty faces a care. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roads were unpaved and dirty, and filled with hungry, undernourished children scampering around half-naked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the waterfront, I saw the old dockmaster coming along toward us, the smoke from his pipe trailing behind him like a dirty veil, and I hurried ahead to meet him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He works all Hours at his Writing, copying out some dirty Volume onto fair, & I believe does not sleep. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When he thought Ged was coming close enough to touch him, he would hobble away, peering back with a scowl around his bush of dirty white hair. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing dirty jeans and a wan pink T-shirt; her face thin and bleached-looking, with huge pupils. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were dirty dishes in the sink, and food from the garbage had spilled onto the floor. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a flannel shirt open over a dirty t-shirt, cut-off jeans, and sandals. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then she translated in Chinese: “You shouldn’t fight and do your laundry at the same time. If you win, your clothes will get dirty.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That weekend, I’m in the laundry room throwing my dirty clothes in one of the washing machines, when Miles walks in, dragging a laundry bag behind him, plus a small container of detergent. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They helped outsiders find their way into the sanctuary and violate every limb of her body by standing on top of her, crowing in victory, and dirtying and polluting her bosom. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs is more of the same, except it’s easier to see: none of the dirty windows are boarded. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Tally retraced her steps to the exact window they’d jimmied, a dirty, forgotten pane of glass concealed behind decorative bushes, and found that it was still unlocked. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe they couldn’t handle the dirty play, or the acorn throwers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yard full of bicycles and balls and dirty sneakers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

My room smells like dirty laundry and old candles, not spices or burnt sugar. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was as if he was thirsty and exhausted from fulfilling himself and making me feel like the dirtiest being alive. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It does not matter. But there in my country it is understood that a man may love God. It is not a dirty joke.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He gave me a dirty look and again told me to sit down. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Worbs's flat is a mess: dirty dishes, clothes lying around, drawers pulled open. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Leaned forward, closed my eyes, parted my lips, and let Jerome shotgun into my mouth a long, dirty plume of smoke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a full-on sermon, and everyone is giving me dirty looks for bringing this upon us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Jon could almost see her in that moment, long-faced and gawky, all knobby knees and sharp elbows, with her dirty face and tangled hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The other was a teenage Hispanic guy in tattered camouflage pants and a dirty black T-shirt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She found herself face-to-face with a nurse, who was covered head to toe in a dirty gray burqa. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My mom boils the dirty tap water to sterilize it and then puts it outside in the snow to cool it. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now it’s black, dirty, ugly, and a sad sight, at least in our part of town. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Three weeks’ worth of her complaining about dirty chopsticks and cold soup, three meals a day—well, it would be a disaster. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oreos, those nasty wafer things that taste like dirty air, and those cheap strawberry cookies. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she let out a high-pitched yell and pointed a dirty finger straight at Thwaites. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shoved her into a doorway, thrust dirty fingers through her hair, and gave it a twist, yanking her head back. "—not a smart boy, that what you mean to say?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Wherever his body showed through, it was bony and dirty and scratched. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds the magic glass up to her blue eye, looks through it and laughs, a low, dirty sound that only came out at two or three o’clock in the morning. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

In my domain, I have a tire swing, a baseball, a tiny plastic pool filled with dirty water, and even an old TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“How do you ever manage to get so dirty?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must have looked very disreputable in their dirty clothes, drenched with sweat, and torn by all the thornbushes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her fingernails were dirty, and her hand was badly shaped and people made jokes about love because sometimes it was funny. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grave chuckled, sticking his gnarled fingers into the pockets of his worn and dirty pants. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s a dirty book. I put the cover on to fool people.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They walked deeper into the neighborhood, avoiding the puddles of dirty water that overflowed from the gutters and dodging the piles of garbage in which cats were digging like silent shadows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And together we wrote a dirty little song called “The Pontifex Always Ranks Under a Queen.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“For what? To hang around with dirty women?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That one gave me a dirty look as I got out of the truck, and whispered something to Lauren. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It almost looked like a dirty, tangled net, but it was too irregular for netting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They kept coming and coming, filling every space, small men with sunken cheeks, dirty faces, and black eyes that Hanako knew had seen worse things than she ever would, ever. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"I can't believe this. You dirty little rats. But I like the fact that y'all are ganging up on me. That means my plan is working." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of Francis and me dirtying our hands with experiments brought unconcealed amusement. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Royal had read of the man’s exploits in the newspaper—lawyer, abolitionist crusader, bane of slavers and those who did their dirty work. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Byron made sure Joey wasn’t watching, then flipped me a dirty finger sign and made his eyes go crossed. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would like to wipe them away but my handkerchief is too dirty. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he grew up to be a junkie, and when I caught him with a bent spoon under his thin dirty mattress, he'd scream that he learned how to do drugs from watching me? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He looks around my tiny room, taking in the unmade bed, the clothes, both clean and dirty, piled on my desk chair, the blank walls, the cheap furniture. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put a pile of dirty clothes on top, just in case. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

At the side of the house, she grabs one of the chickens rooting around in the tom paper wrappers and cracked plastic bottles and dirty diapers strewn in the weeds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I broke out laughing, but Byron shot me a real dirty look and I stopped and looked back down at my math book. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a dirty freckled face and his two front teeth were missing. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dirty pair of goggles—probably protection against bar fights—hangs around her neck. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But when I looked back along the dirty, rocky road with the heat rising up off it, I decided I must be closer to town and should just keep going. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His mother came down in a hired auto, in a fur suit like an arctic explorer’s, and saw him off in a twenty-five mile wind and a steady drove of ice floes like dirty sheep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hooey! Lobster boy! That where you take a bath, that dirty old creek?!” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soot clogged the air and dirtied the ladies’ dresses. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His joints seemed loosely attached, and the woven bracelet around his left wrist looked dirty. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She wrung out a rag that had been soaking in soapy water and wiped my face and hands before lifting my dirty hair to wash my neck. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew that belief in God was not something he was just tossing out the way the maids at Maer tossed out the dirty water. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head and tapped his chin with a dirty forefinger. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Which was fine—Maya wasn’t about to start telling someone what they should do with their body or whatever—but being next to someone that perfect made Maya just want to be messier, dirtier, louder. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There, I would sit on the clear sandy bottom of the river and let the current take me downstream, where I would resurface, put on my dirty clothes, and return to the farm. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fred moved with determination along the pedestrian walkway on the Golden Gate Bridge, oblivious to the dirty glances from slow-walking tourists as he elbowed his way past them. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We scoured the entire lower level of the house, from the dining room to a narrow, dirty kitchen to a living room with the ugliest orange shag carpet I’d ever seen in my life. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I found Aunt Loma sitting at the kitchen table, her long curly red hair still loose and tousled, the dirty breakfast dishes pushed back to clear a space. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

An overloaded switchboard, a dirty game of Twister everywhere you turned. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A delight with drippy lips and a dirty shirt. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe some seedlings had not been planted into their underwater beds properly, or perhaps our pig was eating the wrong kind of garbage, or maybe one of our chickens was dirtying our doorway. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex wondered what it must be like, not to be hungry and dirty and scared. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hartlieb pursed her lips and glanced out through Victor's dirty window. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s mine now. Just to run, of course. I employ the butchers. Three of them. No dirty hands here, angel. What’s your address?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Various meats were on display behind a dirty glass window. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The window shuts harder than it should, and now there’s a crack jagging down the pane, a pane so dirty it lets in almost no light at all. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe because I always thought it was dirty and bad to talk about that. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to help her with the dirty mats, but that would certainly not be allowed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He then went on to disclaim that “any person who knew either of us could possibly believe that either meddled in that dirty work.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jay steps over my dirty clothes and junk on my bedroom floor. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I carry trays of dirty dishes from the dining room back into the kitchen so the dishwashers can spray and scrub them clean. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The round Mongol faces had given way to faces of a more European type, dirty, bearded, and exhausted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Christina throws away the dirty paper towels and gets me new ones. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The turban around his head was dirty, his eyes dark with fear in his brown face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Diego flopped down on the bed, shoving the dirty clothes aside. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The dirty tricks of making squared infinitesimals disappear and then dividing by zero to get a derivative were no longer necessary. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I have Daddy’s dirty plate in front of me so it looks like I ate toast and jam. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

For some reason if you were famous for being smart no one thought you’d ever looked at a dirty book. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been to the barn, had thrown rocks at the swallows’ nests under the eaves until every one of the little mud houses broke open and dropped its lining of straw and dirty feathers. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A plot against me. You're all in it, every one of you. Someone’s paid this half-wit, I tell you. Paid him to tell his string of dirty lies.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers' dirty looks/when the teacher rings the bell/drop your books and run like hell. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

With everything else it is the same, Red Cross, Community Chest, Boy Scouts, Dora’s unsung, unpublicized, shameless dirty wages of sin lead the list of donations. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her short gray hair curled over her ears and forehead, which was marked with black oil as if she had pushed her hair aside with dirtied fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I saw my dirty shoes and crumpled dress, my wet coat lying on the dewy grass. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But back in foggy, dirty, cramped London, she reconsidered. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she flung the dirty water out the kitchen door, she watched the brown liquid soak into the ground where it left a stain on what remained of the snow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed at the dirty square of glass, empty but for its greenish glow of life. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I cracked up, but Grover nudged me because Hera was giving us a dirty look. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I heard that Negroes were dirty I remembered Mrs. Cooper’s shining kitchen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another gave me a dirty look, as if I had no right to walk on her neat street. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All the towns east-west roads dead-ended into Erie, and that day I glanced down every one to watch the lake spit chunks of dirty foam onto the beach like some angry, stalking beast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Augustus,” cried Mr. Wonka, hopping up and down and waggling his stick in the air, “you must come away. You are dirtying my chocolate!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Esteban walked quickly with his big strides, practically dragging Clara behind him, without noticing the dirty water that was spattering his impeccable gray trousers from the English tailor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His sneakers were white and new, and he promised himself he'd never get them dirty. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was going to get rid of the old generals with their hands still dirty with Mirabal blood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dirty reddish hair, a torn shirt, and wore no shoes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roberta and Jimmy sat outside the medical center on a wooden bench that was dirty. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When she handed it to her, she took care not to touch Kaisa’s hand with her own dirtied one. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am on my own, in a dirty room, sprawled on a dirty mattress with a blanket that looks like it was stolen from a child. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The most difficult part of keeping a “white room” really clean is people, who are always dirty—even just after a bath. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” he whispered, ignoring a dirty look from Newt. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It amazed Obinze that, because Nigel thought the man was a “real gent,” he did not complain about the dirty kitchen, as he ordinarily would have done. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tennis shoes that used to be bright white are now dingy dirty. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was only the evening twilight that made the ochre yellow of the plaster look so dirty. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could hear people around us whispering about the crazy drunk man and his dirty little urchin children, but who cared what they thought? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moss smiled at her and the two of them grabbed their empty cups and headed downstairs, dropping the cups into the nearly full tub of dirty dishes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Within moments a little girl with hair as gold as the horse’s tassels stood above me pointing and screaming, “He’s a dirty Jew!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t till he’d returned, dirty and exhausted, that the family had breathed a sigh of relief. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Bedraggled, in dirty party clothes, her hair stuck to her fece, she was still stunning. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As the payback for giving me the dirty finger I said out loud to By, “How many cows you counted, By? How many red cars so far?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the edge of the lake was over five miles away, and it was little more than a small pond full of dirty water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Get out of that dirty uniform,” Rupa said, “and then we need to talk.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Wash up? What makes you think I’m dirty?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“A stack of dirty dishes and a rag.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The day was cold enough to make his breath visible, and he wondered for a moment at the purity and whiteness of his own breath among the dirty, gray explosions surrounding him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the Daily Mail has always had a bit of an affinity for airing our dirty laundry. They, er, they gave my sister this nickname years ago. ‘ Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I knew none of my colleagues would do the dirty deed...We’re too busy. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Hours later, when I heard light footsteps, I went to my door in time to see Cristiana pass by, her feathers bent and her cloak dirty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He kissed her hand, because he was armed and dirty with blood and covered with metal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other than a sprinkling of dirty looks here and there, most people seemed to be on his side. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Robb’s younger sister, brown-haired, long-faced, skinny as a stick, always dirty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “I can’t get over a feeling that Cain got the dirty end of the stick.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were half a dozen, with dirty fur and cracked teeth and beady red eyes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the tube into his large pocket on the right leg of his dirty orange pants. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Now the tailored waistcoat was gone and his shirt was dirty with sweat and mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His touch, the rough hand on me, made me feel sick, and dirtier on the inside than I was on the outside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

What kind of woman could love a dirty fellow like that, anyway? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those guys love to talk dirty through the walls. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we—” I flashed Lorraine a dirty look, and she never finished her sentence. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was the nest of dirty old blankets in which the house-elf had once slept, but they were no longer glittering with the trinkets Kreacher had salvaged. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His mother had been portrayed not as a mother who simply adored her only son, but as an obscene child playing dirty games with whatever male was near—be it her father or her son. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath us, the old sheep, her wool in dirty clumps, cropped wild herbs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Park tried to give his dad a dirty look, but any look at all felt like getting hit in the face with rocks. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Yeah, it was warmer today than it had been, but not warm enough to just be wearing an old dirty windbreaker. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She wore dirty black leggings on narrow thighs. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Except she doesn’t scold TaShon for putting his dirty self and shoes on the bed. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Bodega stopped pacing and returned to his dirty desk. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We were also grateful that we had concluded the dirtiest of chores and had only gotten the evil-smelling swill on our shoes, stockings, feet and hands. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No dirty dishes for Eleanor to wash, a pleasant evening in good company, and perhaps the sun shining again tomorrow.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I went to unzip my duffel but thought of all the dirty clothes stuffed inside, of the smell they'd emit, and thought better. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They are ugly indi'gena blouses, used and grayish white, the color of dirty laundry water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m a damsel in distress,” she said, “and you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car. You know someone wrote Wash Me! on your rear windshield?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Jordan’s lawyer, a thin man with dirty fingernails, shuffled his papers and checked his watch frequently. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It huddled on the edge of a dead, dirty lake, fed by a river best known for burning; it was built on a river whose very name meant sadness: Chagrin. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It gave her a small feeling of satisfaction to notice that Vandara’s feet were bare and her face dirty; the woman had made no special preparations. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took in the dirty concrete floor, the cracked walls. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was crowded, noisy, dirty, rowdy, and uncomfortable. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She kicked the bag with her dirty bare foot. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we had to depend on the gentlemen, many of whom still don’t want to dirty their velvet, we would be at the mercy of the Indians for many more weeks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The cat rubbed against her knee, and as Meggie's fingers stroked its dirty fur an awful thought suddenly occurred to her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She spoke to her again, the little girl looking at her across the end of the crust, pushing it into her mouth with a dirty hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My palms suddenly felt sticky and dirty, and I couldn’t breathe right. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She rose to her feet, which were bare and dirty, and stepped from her chair onto the table. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Always they were the scrawniest or the ugliest or the dirtiest or the stupidest boys, picked on by everyone else, with no one left uglier or stupider than they but her. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled back and give her a dirty look. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His hair was all matted up like a bird’s nest and his clothes were so dirty that not even Cooter would’ve been caught dead in ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I said, “It’s dirty. Lots of pigeons and dark courtyards. Everybody’s pale.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha then bends over and, with his free hand, pulls on the dirty piece of canvas. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He’ll go to the cinema the rest of his life, sit next to girls from lanes and do dirty things like an expert. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The White River is so dirty,” I said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

"This," Manuel Gustavo says, holding the book up like a dirty diaper, "is junk in your head. You have better things to do." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, I see my little scheme worked out just fine. We got the dirty traitor, didn’t we, Fangburn, my old mate?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Despite the dirty socks, she always laughed at her brother’s dumb jokes. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Down near the bottom the papers became dirtier and dirtier. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve had enough of their whispering, so I turn around to give them a dirty look. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I got my pants dirty for nothing? I crawled across the floor like a baby for nothing? I’m so stupid! I can’t believe they’re letting me go on.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Impatiently, Henry splashed some whiskey in a dirty glass and shoved it at him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The streets seemed dirtier when they got out, and the apartment seemed smaller. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

All their clothes were very dirty, but their socks were definitely the worst. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He wants to be Like his shoes, A little dirty From the road, A little worn From racing to the drinking fountain A hundred times in one day. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I realized how dirty my fingers were, and how much dirt was still packed under my nails, I dropped it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She was madly straightening her dirty T-shirt, trying to comb the loose hair out of her face. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He just sat across from me, running his finger around the edge of his dirty plate, refusing to look me in the eyes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He had to work by moonlight drifting through dirty windows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, I cannot light again. Wick is dirty. Will not work. When we see train, we will need to wave and shout. Cannot hold up lamp.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My movement startled her, and she stepped backwards, kicking over the bucket of soapy water, and the dirty suds rushed down the steps. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

If your aged parents have grown tiresome or incontinent, you put them away where others will deal with their dirty diapers and dementia. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body smelled strange—not dirty, exactly, but old, like a musty cave where animals had laired for a long time. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked at him, his mouth was pinched into a line behind his dirty beard. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Pa returns late at night looking dirty and tired. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near me, men were collapsing into the dirty snow. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can a wife keep her husband’s household in order if she has never dirtied her own hands, Huang Taitai used to say as she introduced me to a new task. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Marian recalled, the car was dirty inside and out, the windows were badly in need of washing, and the ventilation and lighting were poor. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Her magnificent white hair is tied up with what looks like a piece of dirty string. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s still standing in the doorway of the bedroom beside his buckets, dirty, unshaven, and in need of a haircut. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He wiped the snowflakes from his eyelashes and fiddled with the dirty buttons on the front of his thin jacket, rubbing them between his fingers the way he had rubbed the cover of his notebook. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“So, Miss Polly, you look like you got a lot to hide. You’re dirty, you look hungry, and you look lost.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed the fan was rusty and dirty, like it hadn’t been used in a very long time. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her face was dirty and her expression sad, and she didn’t say anything. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Bobby, for his part, was livid at the seeming collusion: “I will teach those dirty Russians a lesson they won’t forget for a long time,” he wrote from the Hotel Toplice. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the blood, I think, dirtying the mattress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “There are kids there, living there, in that dark and dirty and cold place. A bunch of them. Eight or ten. Maybe more. They’re skinny and hungry and dirty. It is extremely tragical.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I was little, anything would set me off—a dirty look, a dropped cookie, a canceled outing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“See, you’re not dirty at all, but I thought maybe you knew some folks who were.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was she dirty; unkempt, yes, but not dirty. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In horror the boys watched her raise the slimy, dirty, half-chewed glob of candy above the tabletop to examine it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Muller was sick of America—its dirty science, ugly politics, and selfish society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I came into the yard, my sisters and brother surrounded me, their curiosity comforting, as they pulled on my dirty clothes with remarks that I smelled bad. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Everything else—the piles of dirty laundry, the opened Doritos bags, the empty cans of generic soda pop, two ratty old chairs, and a moldering beanbag chair—was dispensable, an afterthought, props. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is holding a dirty coffee cup in one hand, a heavy silver tray in the other. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You dirty, disagreeable girl! you have never cleaned your nails this morning!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ocean buildings were dirty and crumbling and leaning in different directions. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The corpses I’ve seen had been rolled and dumped, sad little dirty bodies covered with a police khaki blanket. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This part he says in Korean because the last thing my dad would want to do is air our dirty laundry in front of a miguk saram. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he had finished his beer, Doc went into the kitchen, and cleared the dirty dishes out of the sink. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you tuanna play dirty, we can do that, and after I take you down, I’m gonna make you wash my clothes, cut my grass, lace my cleats. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The corporal found the dirty picture of the woman and the pony in Weary’s hip pocket. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours, it sometimes seemed, to get healthy, because the kids were pure and I was dirty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dress, dirty and crumpled, could not be helped. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings, particularly the ones for the prison staff, were clean and contemporary; but the housing for the prisoners was archaic and dirty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she reached her feet, she saw how dirty her toes still were. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now her face was blotchy, and her hair was dirty and scraggly. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I'm still mumbling the song as one of them wraps me in a dirty blanket and the other picks me up like a sick baby. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her dirty feet and started to talk. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was very dusty and dirty and went up to my room to wash. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of sisters passed by and threw us a dirty look. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between heaves I spit and tried to breathe through my mouth and read all the dirty words scratched on the chipped metal walls of the bathroom stall. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And we were both sweaty and dirty and tired as hell from a hard day of work. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was just like all the others, sad, flayed, and dirty, but there were two pots hanging by the door in which grew a few small tufts of geraniums, the flower of the poor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman was watching me from a doorstep where she huddled, her dirty white widow’s sari drawn about her. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tad pushed himself to his feet and wiped his wet, dirty hands on his legs. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It still lurked in dark, unclean corners, still clung to dirty sheets and curtains. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There was just a little bit of wine left, and they passed it around, trying to get the nighttime glow started in the dirty glare of rising daylight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both stared at the faded green house with dirty white shutters. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I try to see my reflection in a pond, but the water is always dirty. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dirty Mexicans. I heard a man at the oil festival say there were heaps of dirty Mexicans in San Antonio.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her dirty feet in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He held out a dirty hand and Dicey put the money into it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even finding such a thing is dirty; even concealing it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s dirty and smelly and full of cruel, nasty people who make children cry and I hate it!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Belorussia was still crawling with Nazi forces, who would clearly resort to the dirtiest and deadliest of attacks, and that’s where the invigorated Red Army concentrated their efforts now. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He comes over like he’s going to mess up my hair, but I block his dirty hands. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bars and splashes of sunlight flitted over him and sweat made glistening streaks on his dirty body. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’m inclined to tell somebody if his glass of water is dirty. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If somebody hands me a dirty glass and asks for a refill, I’m out. I’m telling you, Matt, one hour, and then we go.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ziploc, a dirty camouflage green flashing glassy sparks of pipe, tumbled along the highway before being obliterated by the car behind us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His flat, round pieces were the color of old, dirty wood, nominally white. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The large woman was apologetic, as though it embarrassed her for a stranger to see Mississippi’s dirty linen. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko shot the foreman a dirty look before addressing Mr. Muckle. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I’m a mouse, you’re a dirty old rat in a pile of rotten meat bones! Take us home at once!” screamed Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Momma went, “Oh my God!” and gave Dad a dirty look, then walked back into the house. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were the seats left dirty or wet by previous inhabitants that the kitchen workers had failed to wipe clean. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The Times is not that bad!" she'd claim if her husband tried to humor her by saying they shared the same dirty habit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Janssen opens the door, staring at me as I stand in her back garden with her dirty garden stake, the one I’ve just used to do what she thought was impossible. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Across the small room, the twins’ mattress was on the floor, a mess of blankets and dirty stuffed animals. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In any case, we came to the Gathering Place “for a ‘Hey, you’re not a dirty traitor!’ celebration,” as Uriah put it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the night before they were to leave, they left the dirty dishes on the table all night!! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I put the green outfit back on since it's not really dirty, just slightly crumpled from spending the night on the floor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The dirty little secret of policing is that the Supreme Court has actually granted the police license to discriminate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

X threaded his fingers, once, through his dirty hair, then shielded his eyes against the light again. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Shifre backed out of the cauldron, wiping one dirty hand across her cheek. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could save Arnold from the poisoned treats, let him go on, and let Knapp think that his dirty trick had worked. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had blue shadows under his eyes, dirty fingernails, and badly cut gray hair, like his last haircut had been done with a weed whacker. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a young man in a well- tailored but dirty suit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She saw two thick dirty toes with creased gray toenails. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin Vole huddled piteously on some dirty sacking in a corner, while Mr. Abram Vole and his wife battered away at the door with their paws tied together. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Woke with my mind filled with mud, my thoughts too dirty and slow to come clear. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Weirdly, he wasn’t gaping at her face, but rather his eyes darted from her hair to her dirty sweatshirt and back to her hair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That was a dirty trick you played on me,” he said. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

So it was that Edward did not go flying back into the dirty hands of Martin. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s father would be naked in front of his own daughter. Not unless he was dirty too.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mom said my idea was too time-consuming, so all we ended up doing was straightening piles of paper into stacks and stuffing dirty clothes into the chest of drawers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the first post I got my directed envelope with a dirty scrap of paper enclosed, on which was written with a carpenter’s pencil in a sprawling hand:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In line behind them were five men who seemed especially dirty and ragged. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The humilities are piled on a soldier, so Cyrus said, in order that he may, when the time comes, be not too resentful of the final humility—a meaningless and dirty death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Run away to my family and live with them in their dirty house with fleas and put up with my father’s beatings. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing in the warm, open field feeling hot, dirty, and bored. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he never got his freaking hands dirty, no he didn’t. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No. They got hit by the arrows from the sky. Both of them. They died real nasty.”Tears welled up until they spilled over and washed down her dirty cheeks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“He was good. Why did I say was? He is good. He’s not mean or dirty like me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But who could tell if it was already dirty or not? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a copy of the Psalms, the pages worn thin and dirty from frequent use. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can eat haphazardly now, snack on junk food and takeouts without worrying about balanced meals, go to bed when I like, let my dirty laundry rot, neglect the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up, rubbing one shoulder with a dirty hand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Matt indicated a pile of objects wrapped haphazardly in a dirty woven cloth on the step near him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A swathe of dirty yellow sponge spilled out and shivered on the backseat like an immense jaundiced liver. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eye is swollen and he has his arms wrapped about a dirty dog. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I admired your integrity, standing up for that boy in front of that dirty cop, especially if you got troubles with him at home. That takes courage.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re dirty and exhausted, but it might be the best day I can remember. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His thin tangled hair was the same dirty gray as the stubble standing on his sunken cheeks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad wants you to sign a statement telling what you saw when you worked on the Coral Queen. You know, about Mr. Muleman making them empty the dirty holding tank into the water.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Down to where the guys on the corner laugh low and shout dirty jokes to one another, cracking up and slapping skin as they try to top each other. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

White subsequently informed Hoover, “Before this man could put into execution any of his ‘dirty’ work, he left...as he was given to understand that it would be healthier for him some other place.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As I approached, the woman rubbed her hands on her dirty dress and then made shooing motions at me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie nodded again to acknowledge the compliment and turned again to loading the dirty dishes on her tray. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

You’re lying to us, you dirty—’ the man shouted, and then, strangely, all was silent, as if someone had clapped a hand over his mouth. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or wear dirty ashes on their face all day long. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

St. Louis was a new kind of hot and a new kind of dirty. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they filled the jars and poured the water over their dirty socks. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“How are we supposed to wait—with all of you eating like starving hyenas? I suppose he plans to push up the price, the dirty child murderer!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patched, frayed, and dirty, the hat lay motionless at Harry’s feet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The guy pulled a rosy apple from a nearby tree and polished it on his dirty overalls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It's like something dead and rotting mixed with lots of dirty stuff and…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This hat was patched and frayed and extremely dirty. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In the school cafeteria, he scrounged constantly for spilled cabbage soup, dipping his hand in cold dirty soup that had spilled on the floor and licking his fingers clean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I shot her one last dirty look as I walked into the other room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a bit afraid. It’s just a dirty trick.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Young children ogled at them when they appeared because it was unimaginable, even by the standards of children, to find anyone as dirty as these men were. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s not much to boast of here—two ragged, stained, and dirty uniforms. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I lie on the hard wood and dirty straw of my bunk, I think about the night the angel came to me, giving me my new voice. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The boys walked on slowly, looking slyly at the big boy who had made the remark about the girls, and wondering whether he would lead off into a dirty talk session. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My basketball shorts are damp and dirty from the cemetery, same for Mateo’s jeans, so the wet bench doesn’t bother us when we sit. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She walked past the dirty curtain at the door and pushed Odenigbo’s cup off the table; a pale liquid spread on the cement floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reaches the singing man, grabs the collar of the old man’s dirty coat, and punches him until his body is limp. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He too is in a Guardian’s uniform, but he has no hat on and the uniform is dirty and torn. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where would you be going dressed like that, in that old bowling shirt and those dirty boots? That doesn’t look like investment-checking clothing to me.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fang never said anything, but I think sometimes the stuff we gave him was all he got for Christmas, except for maybe a dirty twenty his mom slipped him on her way out the door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Desperate was white noise, as far as Eleanor was concerned—it was the hope that pulled at her heart with dirty little fingers. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As soon as I was decent, she led me past the dirty linen and out into the baking sun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Across the creek, some younger children gathered—dirty, snot-nosed urchins all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed up at the dirty feet dangling over the lip of the rock. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Jinny glanced around as best she could, at all the legs, the dirty bare feet of different sizes, hanging off the benches on either side of the table. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a dirty white in color and speckled all over with blue spots about the size of cow ticks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had no cycles, so you waited until the water got dirty, then put the clothes through the wringer—two rubber rolling pins rigged above the tub that were turned by a motor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They thought the moon looked like dirty beach sand. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On another night, she might even have joined them; after all, she could tell a dirty story as well as the rest of them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The chest was as neat and tidy as the cabin had been cluttered and dirty. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She saw a small white area on a dirty dark-brown arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her I’m washing all my blankets and linens and I want to nail up some rope to hang them in the attic so they won’t get dirty again or wet in the rain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His hands were uncommonly dirty, and he smelled of rum. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Look, Aragorn! Did I not warn you? There is the old man. All in dirty grey rags: that is why I could not see him at first.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

After Chet walks off, I pick up the pillowcase like it’s a dirty sock. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Probably the greatest achievement in Chokecherry history, and were treating it like a dirty little secret. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The dirty section workers were the lowest of the low. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He turns and gives me a dirty look. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was too dirty to receive the Inka’s saliva so he always spat into the hand of a courtier. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There, huddled as close to Tansy as her calves, lay a sleeping boy, blue in his lips, frost in his hair, and tears frozen on his thin dirty cheeks. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw her jeans and dirty sweatshirt, I realized she’d dropped everything and jumped in the car. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Adam was dirty and soaking when he reached it and turned east into the town of Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was like somebody having a dirty dream, confusing her pillow for a lover. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His long, white- blond hair hangs in dirty strings, and he doesn't even seem to notice that some of it is plastered across his face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They pouted and gave me a couple of dirty looks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the view of these black elites, a “poverty complex” plagued the black poor, one that made them politically apathetic and content with broken-down, overcrowded, and dirty living conditions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to do any walking but the dirty dog? made me go anyway. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the attraction of dirty words we aren’t supposed to say, words like bum; the attraction of conspiracy, of collusion. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The vice minister sets down The Principles of Mechanics and pushes it away, then glances at his palms as though it has made them dirty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I saw your third note, pulled out of my coat pocket with last winter’s dirty tissues. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She examines our dirty clothing, and probably reads how exhausted we are, both emotionally and physically. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hair like dirty rocks, or was it like pine bark? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“A flower child,” said my father, opening his eyes, “is a hippie who lives in Greenwich Village in dirty jeans and beads and who can’t change a pair of socks.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Abra said, “What would I want with a dirty old rabbit all covered with blood?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the last few years, he’s risen to be Trujillo’s right-hand man by the dirty “security” work he’s willing to do. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman shook a dirty, beribboned tambourine and listlessly punched it with her elbow in time to the music. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too early to worry about his dirty looks. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Marshall’s reply came back: “Tell Groves to take care of his own dirty work.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olaf’s sharp and dirty fingernails gently scratched on Violet’s chin, and she shivered. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I recognized his dirty brown shoes immediately as the woman wearing the bright white coat grasped the metallic handle and yanked hard to slide the body out from the silvery wall. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sloth, skinny and pale, bones and knots of knees and dirty blond hair, the next candidate for duct-and-scuttle work when Nailer got too big, her pale skin almost permanently sunburned and peeling. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of the übercostumed guys passing by threw them a dirty look, and Dimple pursed her lips to keep from laughing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They purchased some new pants, shirts, underwear, socks, and shoes, leaving their dirty and sandy clothes behind in their dressing rooms. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Herr Seligmann turns and says calmly, "My windows are dirty. Surely I have a right to wash my store windows." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to hole up in there until help arrives,” said a guy wearing a dirty tux shirt next to Frankie. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When the Range Rover rolls to a stop at a traffic light, Jus looks out his window to find the driver of a white Suburban—white dude, probably early fifties—giving him a dirty look. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mohammed, the gate man, wiry in his dirty white caftan, flung open the gates, and raised a hand in greeting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Chicago is finally beginning to thaw—most of the snow has melted, except for a few dirty patches—and everyone looks brighter, more alive. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

While they idled at a red light, a sad man with a dirty beard and a cup limped to the driver’s side. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The house was very neat but surprisingly dirty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bree and Hwin had already got themselves as dirty and bedraggled as they could and it only remained to shorten their tails. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Uhmma bumps me forward and then waves good-bye when I turn around to give her a dirty look. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“It must be those dirty neighbors you play with, those dirty neighbors.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Let that old man alone, you dirty cop,” a woman screamed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks up his glasses, begins cleaning them with his clay-splattered shirt, making them dirtier. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Why Tim put up with your fat, nasty, dirty trap”—Sally folded her arms and jutted her hips out—“for so long before dumping you, I'll never know.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wore glasses, but they were so dirty that Stanley wondered how he could see out of them. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They wiped their dirty hands quickly and left the garden, closing the gate behind them and following the same path Ramon had rushed along. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The truth is nothing more than a small green room with dirty windows and a lingering smell of cigarettes, even though it has been illegal to smoke on school property for years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

What if one of these scummy guys on the street decides he’s tired of handing out dirty business cards, and decides that a little arson is in order. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The bushes are covered in snow, dirty from George’s dog, Roger. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I grab my dirty clothes up off the floor. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He was the dirtiest, sloppiest bum you ever laid eyes on. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me the money and I will go to Mama Onitsha. She is authentic. She will sell you Gowon’s dirty pant if you pay the right price.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stanley and Zero slept off and on for the next two days, ate onions, all they wanted, and splashed dirty water into their mouths. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The dirty string had been replaced by a red ribbon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So one night, when she was a little older, working for some extra money in a dirty tavern, a man spilled his beer on her only nice dress. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A tear cleared a path down the girl’s dirty cheek. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As a result, Jackal became too fat to run after Hare as he went to the water and drank half of what was there and dirtied the rest. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Every night Julia offers to help George, and every night he says firmly, “Homework, Julia. The floors will just get dirty again.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Wearing dirty, bloodstained clothes, he looked more like a highway bandit than a prince. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My eyes flew to the ceiling, slapped with dirty white paint and a fresh, ringing silence. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And then she watched, her heart rate increasing, as her two kids got out of the dirty Ford and rushed toward the salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It tumbled and landed in the basin of dirty water, as if that were what the basin was there for. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The old gentleman scratched about with his great daws until he had turned up a dirty bundle of papers, one corner of which had been used for lighting something. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside was dusty, maybe simply dirty at this point. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“What a dirty, deliberate outrage! She ought to have been whipped.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All she did was laugh, so I rubbed the dirty turnip in her face and shook her harder, and the harder I shook, the louder she laughed. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She studied the pattern, shades of dull browns, starting nearly black in the center and spinning out lighter and lighter to a dirty yellow at the outer edge. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Leo couldn’t help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn’t mind getting her hands dirty. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Because it was a dirty double-crosser,” I say. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her, from out of the earth, emerges a naked and dirty Gabriel Witter, his hair matted with blood and grime. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When it came time for the outside games, Amelia complained, “I can’t get my dress dirty.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Help!" he's blubbering, choking on that dirty water, and then his punksters are splashing in to rescue him. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I like the flowers, but know I would not go to such lengths, make such efforts, get myself so dirty to produce them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

By being careful with the gas, I made it last most of the winter; then I cooked on the fireplace, which is a lot of trouble because it gets the pans so dirty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I walk in the dining room with my dirty hands up in the air. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The sullen wet heat of Volantis sapped his strength and left him feeling dirty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know what to do with Pri’s loud, dirty mouth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But since she determined we were elegant ladies, too big to get our dresses dirty crawling around on the floor, we had to find a better spot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"There's a species of woman here who's waked the whole street up. What kind of a dirty business at this time of night! She says she must see you. I've told her you're asleep." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want to get their new uniforms dirty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A gossamer blanket of coaldust floated down like a dirty blessing and gently smothered the traffic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard barking, and Joseph saw a dirty white ball of fur with something in its mouth dash out from beneath a table. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My fingers, which a second before had been taste buds savouring the food a little ahead of my mouth, became dirty under his gaze. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He made very sure that the dirty blanket covered both the victims, and outside the entrance the Brute Squad held a boot count of those they had removed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner one evening, as I’m collecting the dirty plates, the Doctorita rubs her giant belly. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those men—” “You’re not dirty at all.” “—they did things ... the bad man and the other two ... they did things ... did things to me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nurse Ramirez shoots the doctor a dirty look, as if he had just insulted me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they came past, she gave me a really dirty look. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’d just show a little gumption, Eugenia—” “Your dress is all dirty on the front.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She gave me a dirty look, but I must have looked as horrified as I felt, because she started smiling. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr Wormwood's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The world is dirty, no matter how much they clean, and we know they will not welcome our grubby little questions. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to answer him, glaring instead through the dirty windshield. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All she’ll say is that my mama showed up one day, dirty and stinking and toting me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On Friday, things were still slushy, damp, dirty, dark, and cold. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the wide dirt road in front of the station, there was a row of bodies covered by dirty straw mats. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When we first moved here, my mother had started out working in the so-called dirty areas of the plant. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be humiliated by anything, least of all being dirty. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I turned back and touched my hand to the dirty glass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she gathers the dirty sheets, she looks at me like I’m the most disgusting creature in the world. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I guessed how untidy and dirty I must appear after a week of sleeping on the doorstop. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the boy on the slab, the young boy with bruises and dirty fingernails, the boy who wasn’t Salim. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty collar of his shirt slipped down to reveal a freckled shoulder. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And now, if I tell her about this blood, she’ll somehow find a way to blame me, make it my fault, make me feel like a dirty longa. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peeked through a dirty glass pane in the back door. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even the wallpaper had been ripped back in dirty, uneven strips. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He sees her come back out, a dirty, bloodstained T-shirt in her hands. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Shut up your dirty mouth,” the woman was screaming. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping you two would start talking dirty,” Pez says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I fan through pages of kids holding up hammers and amateur birdhouses, or shovels and dirty carrots they just dug up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

His were worn through, dirty, beaten up, although not missing a single bead of Mama’s tight beadwork. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"A dog,” said Fred, "would keep burglars away. He would sleep on the foot of my bed, and I would wash him whenever he was dirty.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left my dirty clothes on the floor. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now here they were, small and dirty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the weak moonlight, filtered through clouds and the dirty windows, I see him sit on the gold sofa and pat the cushion beside him. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For three days he teased her as he used to do, and pulled her hair, and performed dirty Karaghiozis puppet shows. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My wallet. So dirty, even though it was in my pocket.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In its furnaces the power plant burned coal, and out of its chimneys black smoke poured day and night, blanketing the town with soot and making all the floors dirtier than ever. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The men look up from their work to watch us—three English boys in dirty shirts and worn-out slops and one naked Indian princess, tumbling like cartwheels all over the fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was a small, dirty man in filthy brown clothing, and he stank of horses. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And Turner felt dirty, as though he really had been caught doing something vile. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t touch me, hut our bodies are close, I can smell his scent, clean in this dirty room, sharp and astringent. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Padre Leo is so disheveled that visitors sometimes mistake him for one of the poor, dirty migrants sitting outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The metal door was half hidden behind a laundry bin full of dirty hotel towels. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Aye,” said the boy with the red velvet britches and the dirty face. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Marshall didn’t want to know about Groves’s dirty work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about that point, a customer, entering the Professor’s store, forced him to leave his vantage point at the dirty window. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

People noticed and gave them dirty looks, but the only booing during the game was when the refs made calls in favor of Armstead Academy’s team. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Then, around the corner of the house, came Bailiff Charles, leading five dirty, angry men. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The woman threw me a dirty look, then turned gentler eyes on her son. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Z could have refused Trepid’s request right off the bat, but he figured that Trepid would just find someone else to do his dirty work, and that would not be good. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Physicist Mark Oliphant, arriving at the Cavendish from Australia in the mid-1920s, remarked on its “uncarpeted floor boards, dingy varnished pine doors and stained plaster walls, indifferently lit by a skylight with dirty glass.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A few are a mess—dirty and stinky. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now all the passengers were nodding and murmuring agreement with this dirty cowboy and red-faced fat man. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I got no place I want to visit. I been to Montpelier twice. That’s enough. Boston’s too big and too dirty. I wouldn’t like it. Where would you go?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty look I got from Dana—that doesn’t happen very often. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Because she’d come out here into the dirty world, maybe she needed to take another shower before she started work again. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I did every dirty job there was: I cleaned outhouses and strained bugs out of cisterns. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man is coming fast down the alley, wearing dirty coveralls like a worker, a cap pulled low on his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were long hairy breeches of some unclean beast-fell, and a tunic of dirty leather. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Taran came to his senses on a pile of dirty straw, which smelled as though Gurgi and all his ancestors had slept on it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Mom has very specific things in mind, and a bird-daughter with terrible shyness and a dirty hoodie was never one of them. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hugo wiped his eyes with his dirty, ashen hands, leaving long black smudges across his face. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The uncut back made a dirty dragging train. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, she had two pieces of paper with her, crumpled, dirty scraps, much too small for all the words unspoken over nine years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That depends on what you consider dirty,” he replied. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small black stone, dirty and jagged, covered in veins of gray and white like cracked glass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her face was dirty, and her tears left pink tracks down her cheeks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Once home, I wrapped myself in my dirty blankets and fell on the floor like a dead man. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They came to a brook, cold water already very dirty from many men moving upstream. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scooped some dirty water into his mouth, then swished it around, trying to filter it with his teeth. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Get out of my way, you dirty little tale-bearing bloodsucker,” said Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the boy from the mission with the dirty hands and black hair. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There in the middle of the crowd in her dirty gray coat is my mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Wherever the trains stopped, the migrants went, gaunt and dirty, plagued by parasites they had picked up along the way, to front doors to beg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And he was old and very polite; he never came inside, he said, because he didn’t want his dog, Bones, to “muddy up the floors,” even though Delilah’s paws were just as dirty. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even bother to change out of my dirty, blood-covered clothing. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The other students were misfits, they all seemed to have dirty hair and oversized mouths and shrunken foreheads and in my estimation were as dumb as the dead. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edward danced for strangers on a dirty street corner in Memphis. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The wallpaper in the kitchen was dirty and peeling. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We hear faint footsteps and a girl of about three, in a dirty pink dress, emerges from the hall. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And then I would help Father carry the dirty laundry back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

How out of place these dirty, tired travelers must have seemed at the Stuarts’ fine table. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first report was very bad, and Buford rode over and took command, but it was only concussion and Gamble was back on his feet in a few moments, ragged and dirty. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They literally live in bathwater—dirty as it may be—yet refuse to bathe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Beneath my Vibram soles the wall fell away for three thousand feet to the dirty, avalanche-scarred cirque of the Witches Cauldron Glacier. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of dirty and clean, mixed up together. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, with a frown, she spits on her finger and rubs at the reddish brown spots—dried blood from flea bites I scratch too much—that speckle the sleeves of my dirty white blouse. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bull wiped his hands on the front of his jeans as if he’d just finished a dirty, dirty deed—which he had. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad survived the winter, but every time I saw them, they looked a little worse for wear: dirtier, more bruised, their hair more matted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce spat on her fingers and rubbed her face, but succeeded only in making both face and hands equally dirty. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to sit down on the dirty, littered ground right now and cry until I can’t cry anymore. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

No one wanted the empty seat next to the huge mound of a homeless man in dirty clothes. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And he’d changed his mind about being seen with her in public, he’d wanted to tuck her in the back of the cafe like a dirty secret. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This consisted of two friends of his, carrying boxes and cables and a long, fuzzy microphone like a dirty, rolled-up bathmat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas gave him a dirty look and said, “You said ‘the Home,’ Bud, what kind of a home? Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

So I hold in my arms and hands as many of her dirty clothes and pill bottles and alcohol bottles as I can. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Rolled eggs, rice balls with meat and vegetables, were ground into the dirty floor. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Tell Mr. Blakeslee I cain’t come today,” he said, putting his scaly hands in the pockets of his dirty, ragged overalls. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was drunk, and dirty, and very old, and her mouth was bigger than his mother’s mouth, or his own; her mouth was loose and wet, and he had never seen anyone so black. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve worked dirty jobs before. I’m not afraid of hard work.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys tried out their dirty words and crude comments on her for weeks. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Every few pages she shook her head and announced, “This book is sooo dirty.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I feel ashamed standing in front of the professor with dirty feet.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“She made our school sound dirty, and Mr. Costa works hard.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He watched Mother gathering up dirty dishes while Dad, Matthew, and Mark leaned back in their chairs, talking of grain yields. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walked around toward a big blackberry bush and found some dirty sawhorses next to a bunch of stumps. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

At school, I walk through the gates, conscious of my hair swinging behind me and, despite reason, bracing myself for a crowd to begin taunting, Longa, dirty Indian. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then their father enters with a box of dirty rags, and her mother just a few moments later. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now we were really dirty, just covered in dust because of all the running around and wrestling we had done. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun slanted through the dirty attic window, lighting the dust motes dancing in the air. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The queen’s smile was distant, and the nephew, Hrothulf, picked at the table with a dirty fingernail. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked like Mom again, with her Serious Business hair and her dirty hands and her crackling eyes, but she wasn’t exactly the same. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His arms ached for something heavier than trays, for something dirtier than peelings; his feet wanted the heavy work shoes, not die thin-soled black shoes that the hotel required. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I was tempted to ask her about the dirty drug tests, Art interjected. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The children especially are so dirty you wouldn’t want to touch them with a ten-foot pole. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I know that sounds gross, but most stuff is in plastic bags so it’s not as dirty as it sounds. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I wished I could go back to the noise and the smell, the crowded and dirty bathroom. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My aunt told me pigs is the dirtiest animal. She said we ain’t supposed to eat ’em ’cause it’ll make humans dirty too.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“But how?” gurgled Scruffy, spitting out a mouthful of dirty water. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Only someone with very sharp eyes would have been able to see the figure that stood silently behind the very dirty window in the darkened room. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to listen well, to hear what they were screaming, but I could not understand much beyond “dirty” and “filthy” and “Jew.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And she looked forward to Heaven as a place where clothes did not get dirty and where food did not have to be cooked and dishes washed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my black suit, with my dirty Wallabees, I stood in the doorway, which was open to the winter wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’d never forget the feeling of looking over the railing, down at the roiling, dirty liquid as it slowly ascended, thinking that his fife had almost ended in its depths. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The lieutenant bowed, came back with three pieces of chicken, hot and greasy, wrapped in a dirty white cloth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the dirty glass and watch the city disappear in a haze. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Again and again he barked, and the cat growled softly and continuously, walking back and forth and rubbing his whole length against the dirty, muddied head. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

How would she explain being out alone at night, facedown on the path, wet and dirty? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her dirty bare feet and long legs went straight for the sky. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was not one of those fussy mothers who got upset when you came home dirty or played in the mud or fell and cut yourself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the dirty, cramped cell, I could lie on my cot and touch both walls. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always something, mirrors, floors, a dirty glass in the sink or the trash can full. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Jesus wanted his disciples, and all of his followers, to love their neighbors enough to even wash their dirty feet. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t any snow, just dirty mounds of ice on the ground. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Papi would never have threatened to starve a child, no matter how dirty his shirts might be. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Two miles farther on he stopped again to pick up a hitchhiker, a hefty young woman with a broad and sensual face—such blue eyes—and dirty blond hair in pigtails. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a horrible trick, the sense that her value is being sucked down the drain, like when the plug is pulled from the tub and the dirty water goes down. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A great many were yellow: pale yellow, brownish yellow, sandy yellow, dirty yellow, and they had green shutters and red-brown roofs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had heard that pigeons were dirty, filthy, nothing more than rats with wings. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was harder to say who was dirtier, the children or the beasts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph started to whiz around in a figure eight when his tires slipped and the motorcycle tipped; He lost control and landed in icy, dirty water. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Dogs are dirty, and smelly. And they have germs. And you know who will end up walking her all the time, picking up all the poo-poo?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was in now, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Note: Even if your waterer should last your flock for several days, you must still check it, in case the water has been dirtied, spilled, etc. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She stabbed her spoon into her oatmeal and shot him a dirty look. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dalai lifted the drape of Boori Ma’s sari, a cheap white weave with a border the color of a dirty pond. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We open the containers and line them up on the edge of the dirty porch. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I recognized it as the one from his cabin that was filled with that dirty, muddy liquid. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He kept studying his hands, wiping at them with his white Subway-brand napkin, though I doubted they were dirty, since he’d eaten a salad. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I helped her carry the picnic things and tired, dirty children to the wagon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Center stage, a bag of Lay’s had spilled its guts and a halo of chip crud decorated the dirty carpet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Ebola virus had spread in Zaire through dirty needles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lorraine interrupted, shooting a dirty look at Norton and then dashing off again. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had only a small dirty bag containing a few clothes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His dirty little fingers squeezed the pencil tight and he kept breaking the lead point. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He was trying to kidnap that little dirty girl, but they caught him in time,” Spoade said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seamus is mopping the floor and there are tears on his cheeks and he’s saying, ’Tis a dirty rotten thing to die in a lavatory when you’re lovely in yourself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I must have been very dirty and disheveled, to judge by what the others looked like. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So while I trod the dirty road, alone among strangers, my thoughts pursued a primrose-strewn path. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was a very dirty trick, but I went over and brought it over to him--I didn't have any alternative or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

His mother frowned, like she wasn't sure whether that counted as a dirty word. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One day, I remember, a dirty glass of water was on a counter and Mr. Muhammad put a clean glass of water beside it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His aunt, Uma Maima, presides in the kitchen all morning, harassing the servants as they squat by the drain scouring the dirty dishes with ash, or pound heaps of spices on slabs that resemble tombstones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Spike sighs and looks at her dirty sneakers, which she’s still wearing, which I try not to think about because—gross. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was full of dirty dishes and the milk had been left out of the refrigerator and turned bad. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a woman holding on to her toddler’s hand while fussing with her other child, who looks about five, telling him to stop touching the dirty table that’s coated with days-old ketchup. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The dirty joke had been somehow insulting to blacks. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

For those teaching unions, ‘brighter’ and ‘abler' are dirty words.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It let her know that nearby was a waterway, which, dirty though it was, joined a river that flowed out to the sea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave my old and dirty laces one last retie, buttoned my tablecloth shirt up to the top, and started walking. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Theo stood, turned to the man he was about to accuse, and saw the scene in the soup kitchen, saw Otis Amber cooking soup for the dirty, hungry men. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a dirty sock and wiped my puke-covered foot clean. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The rest of the school seemed to think so too, because I got a lot of dirty looks as I stewed there in full view behind the glass. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There was burst after burst in the dirty air, yellow lightning shattering the ground, splintering rock, ripping limbs off the great trees and sending them twisting swirling dancing along the ground, along the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what dirty beasts get to live in,” she said, and slammed the door. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tossed a pan of dirty water onto the flagstones and pushed a strand of graying hair out of her eyes with the back of her hand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing Uncle Leang’s wife, Aunt Keang does is to take off our dirty black clothes and give us new ones. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s dirty, and he’s going to have a bath.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It was so full of grease and dirt and sticks and boxes,” he thought, that it looked like a big, wide, dirty street, except in some places, where it boiled up. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They brought the poor old man, smiling, confused, hideous and very dirty, and stood him before Robin “Go on,” said Robin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the dirty window, I could see part of the overpass bridging the two Nogaleses and the chainlink fence separating the two cities. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Like maybe she had just put away a whole load of dirty dishes, which is something that had happened before. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I felt like telling everyone that he sold his dirty underwear. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Luke collected the dirty plates, his face still blank. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He recovered and said, “Then our course was already set from the moment I laid eyes on you, on that dirty street.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then I run down to Windemere and write everything I remembered—the clam shack, the pinwheel, Mirren’s dirty feet on the wooden steps, the book Gat gave me—on the graph paper above my bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She motioned at a stack of dirty glasses and plates. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At last Ralph stopped work and stood up, smudging the sweat from his face with a dirty forearm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They wear dirty clothes and smell bad after days or weeks without bathing. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Now the dirty dishes are piled high and the kitchen table is covered with crumbs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain could see the men shuffling, strange pathetic spectacle, dusty, dirty, ragged men, heads down, faces down: it reminded him of a history- book picture of impressed seamen in the last war with England. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only thing I got in here are dirty socks, dirty drawers, a helmet, and a canteen,” he said. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s like I’m this dirty little male secret of hers. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Boston was a terrible place, older and even dirtier and more crowded than Lowell. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” he said, pointing with a dirty fingernail at a spot in central Siberia, a long way east of the Urals. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She felt them pelting her with dirty thoughts. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her neck was dirty and her dress was torn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish Martín didn’t wear Mira Bro. It’s nasty, smelling that deodorant mixed with food and dirty plates for five hours.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It got bigger, taller, and richer; but it also grew dirtier, darker, and more dangerous. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They were unrecognizably dirty, and so was my skirt, even though I’d hiked it up when I worked. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And there were two tiny brass cogs in the dirty water in the gutter by my feet, like cogs from a windup watch. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was cooking cow feet stew and dirty rice. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She is supposed to be a stray, and her fur must look matted and dirty. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We scooped up cups of dirty water, hoping to find a fish or unknown treasure. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ready to knock JoJo into the water if he so much as gave her a dirty look, and I wasn’t going to pull him back into the boat this time. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early stood with his legs wide apart, his hands clasped behind his back, heavy in the jaw, his face bleak and grim, black beard dirty and untrimmed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Quines collects our dirty dishes, I whisper, “Delicious salad.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The dirtier you are," she had said, "the harder it is for a witch to smell you out." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

All I've felt these past few years has been metal, splinter, dirty straw. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I have midterms and papers due and dirty clothes I never picked up from my bedroom floor, and I have friends, lots of friends.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t wear them to school. Boys are dirty and try to look up them.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

They cried for their mothers much less often than might have been expected; they were very brown, and filthily dirty. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Puzzled, I did as he bid, staring at my image in the flowing water: my long hair, my dirty, bruised, and tear-streaked face, my red-rimmed eyes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It lands on a dirty glass, which shatters. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His face is close to mine; I concentrate on my dirty toes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon is bright enough, but Berlin seems not to want to accept the sunlight, as though its buildings have become gloomier and dirtier and more splotchy in the months since he last visited. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His face is bloody and his clothes are dirty with footprints. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He stared at the bare walls, the locked door, the dirty floor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning Becky sent me to the washerwoman with a giant basket of dirty tablecloths and serviettes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Pollard were dirty and tired and shaky from the wreck. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hair the color of dirty rocks and cut utterly bizarrely. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As a dining hall, it left much to be desired—it was dark, dirty, drafty, and hard to heat in winter, its cellars infested with rats, its massive wooden rafters worm-eaten and festooned with cobwebs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then I look under the bed and find enough dirty clothes to where I bet she hasn’t washed in months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, wear that one. You can help Mercy with the carding. You won’t dirty yourself at that.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Littered all over the floor were empty wine bottles and dirty dishes. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She has to live up high in his nest, dirty and ragged, eating rotten meat. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But if you looked on either side of these pretend-pagodas, you could see the streets became narrow and crowded, dark, and dirty. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like Georgie, not quite clean but not really dirty. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ren shoots me a dirty look from where he’s regenerated several yards away from me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We sent return communication in a similar way, wrapping notes in the same plastic and placing them at the bottom of the mounds of dirty dishes that were routed back to the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mestizos called us longos, stupid Indians, dirty Indians, poor Indians. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my family we didn't have many clothes, but my mother worked hard to keep them clean and we were never dirty. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to care that his fingernails were dirty, but maybe he couldn’t keep such long nails clean. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We padded it with hay and put it in an empty stall in our barn, hidden under some dirty old croker sacks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the flickering glow, Taylor’s mother looked just like she had when Taylor was six, but this mom wasn’t crying at a sink full of dirty dishes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After his shower, he put his dirty clothes in his crate and got out his box of stationery. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Lying on the dirty ground inside the circle was a huge wooden sign, at least twelve feet long. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the fact that he was a dirty, lying mooch, of course. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neeley, though weeping, remembered to spread his handkerchief on the curb so that his new long pants wouldn’t get dirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He marveled at how I got out of doing all the dirty work Mrs. Dawson wanted me to do. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so dirty, you could take a spatula and scrape the filth off my skin.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At first, I think he’s calling me dirty, “Howdy, Dirty!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She waved vaguely at the dirty old mirror and the damp floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

‘I bumped into him on the steps and he gave me this look—why, I never had anybody to look at me so dirty.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was somewhat ashamed to have him see me, because working so hard I was dirty, hot, and sweaty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She didn't get up from my lap or anything, but she gave me this terrifically dirty look. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I thought of crawling in between the bed sheets and trying to sleep, but that appealed to me about as much as stuffing a dirty, scrawled-over letter into a fresh, clean envelope. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Kenya takes one easily, but I’m not touching that dirty money. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Eveillard, balding and with a dirty shirt, had been deflecting the barbs of some of the American-born officers, with limited success. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to go away. It’s a dirty town.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try to stop thinking about it, which is easier on weekdays when I’m distracted by school stuff like Zeno of Elea, lit mag, and the dirty looks I still get from Tim Huber’s friends. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It smelled strangely, as if packed with dirty damp socks, which upon closer inspection she recognized as cheese and fish. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

His weather-beaten cutoffs had been bleached gray by the sun, and a dirty red bandanna was knotted around his right wrist. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

At many beds, nurses were removing dirty dressings. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The fingers were smudged, and the nails were dirty and chewed down. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“We must not stoop to dirty weapons, even if our enemies do.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands were dirty, but I didn’t wash them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A welcome relief spread through my chest, out to each arm and leg, to the tips of my fingers, even under my dirty fingernails. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They flew over the busy railway station where the Soviet troops bound for Kursk were gathering, surrounded by a mess of smoking bomb craters in the dirty snow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One of the old men, wearing a tom and dirty sheepskin jacket, had on a gun belt; in all the truck cabs, gun racks held rifles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s right, you know. Kaz shouldn’t send you to do his dirty work.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Grover was sitting cross-legged on a blanket with something fuzzy in his lap, a dirty, unnaturally pink stuffed animal. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I honor women too highly to allow them to descend into the dirty pool of politics,” one anti politician said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Few minutes later, I go back to her bedroom to get the dirty clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“While you were off having fun, I was doing the dirty work of defending your old faction, eliminating interfaction conflict...” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But all of a sudden, everybody was looking at her dirty, bare feet. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was about to add, “Do come in,” but then she realized that Justice Strauss would probably not want to venture into the dim and dirty room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“She can’t make me not hate you. You dirty sneaking American Italian.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It shifted like dirty oil moving through water, and the only thing I wanted to do at that moment was run screaming back to the house. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’d sooner have a dirty slob for a mother than a crazy woman. And I’d rather have no father than a drunken man for my father.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair fell in long dirty strings over his eyes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dully, I looked down at the ragged, dirty shirt I wore. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you like something to drink?” said Ear, throwing a towel over the heap of dirty dishes in the sink. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But the Chaplain’s fingernails are always dirty. They’re even dirtier than mine.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose if you add a dirty floor, it’s probably what his dorm room looks like. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I almost looked up to see if my chute would catch air or just flutter around up there like a giant dirty sock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It is dirty, but that will not harm you, Master Wormtongue. In you go now!” The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later Marcus was pawing me under the bleachers while I kept a lookout for spiders and tried not to feel like a dirty cliché. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Jordan never let up, even as he was telling dirty jokes to Calvin. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The dirty and clean rice were in two careful mounds on the enamel trays before us, with the stones placed on the mat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each night, she added to her sack of dirty laundry at the hotel, refolding any clothes she could stand to wear another day in a stack on top of her open suitcase. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms don't look dirty to me, and I hate that Ma is making this assumption. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The doctors probed Lincoln’s bullet wound with their bare, dirty fingers, sticking their pinkies inside Lincoln’s brain. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and saw my grandmother, her back looking a little more hunched in her dirty sari. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They tipped the dirty water away onto the base of a clump of snapdragons which, Nettle said, made him homesick for his parents’ back garden. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And when your blood gets dirty, it basically messes all kinds of other stuff up inside you. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

By the time I dipped my feet into the water, it was so dark and murky, my skin was dirtier than before I had washed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

So here’s the quick and dirty of how this trick should work: I take an empty water bottle, which I’ve sliced a sliver of an opening in. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The next day just before noon, he stirs from his dirty mattress. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Calvin and I are dirty after all our work. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The runaways, ragged, dirty, hungry, cold, did not steal the gun as they might have, and set off by themselves, or turn back. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Got up from the dirty sofa and handed it to me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Snotweed” Matt said loudly with a grin and wiped his own runny nose on his dirty sleeve. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At age fourteen, by a process of osmosis, of dirty jokes, whispered secrets and filthy ballads, Tristran learned of sex. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, it seems like all that stands in the pot is a confusion of dirty water. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

On the skeleton’s finger was a ring, dirty and tarnished but unmistakably gold. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Instantly, Fifi began to cry, so that right away, my aunt's suspicions were confirmed: I had dragged my little sister against her will to this dirty place. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was dirty and starving and bitten and hurt and lonely and ugly and afraid and so completely miserable that it was like being in a pit, a dark, deep pit with no way out. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woolf then had to resort to dirty riding to thwart Richardson. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman leaned out of a window and splashed a pail of dirty water into the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I stumbled down onto the dirty, oil-stained concrete, just managing to catch myself before I slammed into the side of her car. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You are dirty, Horse,” they cried, and he whimpered and accepted their accusations. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the everything and the everyone of her life, and so I could not help but imagine it: I imagined a scrawny eight-year-old with dirty fingers, looking down at her mother convulsing. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You tricked us into doing your dirty work.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She disliked dirty jokes or nudity in movies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There are hoards of gentlemen dressed in velvet and silk, sailors in their wide-legged slops, and one very dirty boy selling eels. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It sent back a dirty spray that splashed across the windshield. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their dirty blonde hair was frizzled out, like unraveling kite strings dragged through too many hands, but they didn’t seem to be concerned about what they looked like. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She laughed, and I gave her a dirty look. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They walked with their knees together and talked through tight lips as if they were as afraid to let the sound out as they were to inhale the dirty air that the listener gave off. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got back to me with: Chrissie V very dirty girl. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He opened the window, lit the dirty little oilstove, and put on a pan of water for coffee. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Tradition can be a dirty word, especially around Christmas. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A minute later they came into her line of sight: dirty, sweaty men with sloping shoulders and stooped postures. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You took a lot of cuts. Skin’s supposed to protect you, but water’s dirty here, and you were in oil.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was dirty and unshaven and his hair was uncombed. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had apparently gone shopping at the Barrachina souvenir shop, where they’d replaced their dirty tattered shirts with loud tropical numbers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even on sunny days the sky was a dark, dirty gray along the southern shore, courtesy of Central Michigan Electric’s coal-burning plant, located only a few short miles from town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about it. They were dirty anyway. Here,” he said, holding out the cloth, “you better get cleaned up.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then she taps out what’s left of the glitter from her test tube into their dirty palms. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were three men with him, in a great hurry, all smiling, all dirty. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bar didn’t change; whatever the color of the walls, they were always dirty, dark grime of stale beer and cigarette smoke; it always smelled the same too, a lingering odor of urine and vomit. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The heavy fabric lay on the floor, crumpled and dirty. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Conditions at the Fort were cramped and dirty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We posed in front of the New Dealer office, our feet dirty and bare for the whole world to see. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

They get sweaty and dirty, and it doesn’t look like much fun. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fingernails rough and dirty from pulling weeds in the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I drop the dress back in the box and dust off my hands like they was dirty. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His face was dirty, and he was piling his plate high with boiled new potatoes and with what looked like cold, whole, cooked, trout. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Estha waited in the dirty marble lobby with the lonely, watching mirrors till the red door took his sister away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a quiet, soft-spoken man who wore old-timey clothes, fedoras, button-down wool coats, suspenders, and dressed neatly at all times, regardless of how dirty his work made him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box contained nothing but junk—a headless doll, some dirty lace, a rabbit skin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, come on then and show me the house.” not a dirty girl like Natalie. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, he had sinned: one morning, alone, in the dirty bathroom, in the square, dirt-gray cupboard room that was filled with the stink of his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His little face was no longer black but a dirty, colorless gray. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in prison rags and old, beat-up sneakers so dirty that not even the brand name shows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I can’t help it, I catch sight of these discarded scraps, a dirty T-shirt or a lonesome shoe, and all I can think of is the other shoe and the feet that fitted into them. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give him a dirty look, but we each take one scone anyway. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She didn’t look at anything except her dirty red sneakers, her swelling ankle. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He nods, slurping at his thumb, happy to share a secret that involves getting dirty. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clarissa glanced to the chairs where I had my dirty T-shirt and jeans spread out like some kind of strange art exhibit. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Midway along to delivery, Bailey came home and brought me a spun-silver bracelet from South America, Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel, and a slew of new dirty jokes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands were bound and his cassock was dirty. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Old man O’Brien. Last week he cursed me out of his yard, the dirty Irish....” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forks and knives had been set down on the dirty plates, and drinks were half-drunk. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dark faces looked out at him from dirty windows. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed before how dirty they are. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Watch it!” he barks, shooting me a dirty look. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not nice to walk away and leave a dirty table.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra had an impression of bloodstained muzzle and face, small malevolent black eyes, and an immensity of dirty matted yellowish fur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Or what if I’m swimming and they realize I’m indigena and they clear out the pool and empty out all the water because I made it dirty? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a matter the navy guns would take care of, he repeated, a tailor-made place for shipboard artillery to do the dirty work. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dust from along the skirting board had dirtied her hands and the back of her dress. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He picked up dirty clothes and old newspapers without apology. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I described it, omitting the detail that my participation had been limited to removing the dirty plates from the refreshments table. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It made him think about that girl in the bar, her pinched face and the hate in her eyes as she lay on her back on the dirty floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the two of them walked up and down the beach in painful silence, Ess periodically stopped to root in the sand with a dirty foot, but it did no good. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We ate greedily, licking our palms and sucking under our dirty fingernails. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You mustn’t drink from it. Comes right up out of the ground. Probably pretty dirty.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting dirty clothes back on was a sacrilege. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He waited on the stoop until twilight, pretending to watch the sun melt into the dirty gray Harlem sky. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d stacked the dirty dishes and was filling the kitchen sink when I heard it—a shrill, strangled cry that began in one key and ended in another. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kantorek sweats and spits out a dirty piece of wood that has lodged in his teeth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brings in the butchered dirty meat and washes it in the sink with detergent and hot water. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coach rubs his neck, staring at the gym wall with its dirty windows, covered by bars. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The gray of the sky cast a dull reflection on the blue waves, and the sea spray foamed like dirty dishwater. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They all look the same— dirty and desperate and dangerous. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Doris always says that the worst thing ever is a man dressed up in a sharp suit, wearing dirty shoes. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Who cares if a man wants to marry another man? All I want to know is who’s going to pick up all the dirty socks?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d seen this place before: dirty windows and flaking green door flanked by a candle-maker’s workshop on one side and a kitchenwares stall on the other. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So she picked up one of the strips of paper and read it aloud, first in English: “Do not fight and air your dirty laundry in public. To the victor go the soils.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told jokes all afternoon and Francie laughed at them all, whether they were funny or just plain dirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Floss was all ready to make a dirty reply about the wind blowing her drawers off if she was up that high. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran off as fast as he could to the far end of the garden and hid himself behind that clump of dirty old laurel bushes that we mentioned earlier on. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was shoeless; large, dirty toes were sticking out of the holes in his socks. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

His small, dirty face betrayed no hint of what we were really going to do. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When he had to use the newspapers in the corner, he felt dirty and ashamed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No different than the marshal who goes after his man even after the dirty cur shoots him. He still gets the job done before he gives in to pain.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Our faces get dirty, our hands get dirty, our whole bodies get dirty. Then what do we do?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drag myself upright and throw him a dirty look. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“What are you freaks doing out here?” he says, slamming the truck door and turning his baseball hat around backward, rolling up a sleeve like he’s about to get into some dirty work. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He wears the same pants for days, stained and dirty from hauling boxes of ripe vegetables. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

You have to be when your parents get dirty looks at the mall and somebody shouts, “Go back home!” a couple of times a year. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He went to the end of the hall and flashed the light on a dirty ceiling and saw a wooden stairway leading to the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, he was a man of action who didn’t mind getting his hands dirty—literally. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Is that a chaplain I see over there? That’s really a fine thing when a man of God begins hanging around a place like this with a bunch of dirty drunks and gamblers.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t take three steps in the hall without getting a dirty look from somebody. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Stepping into the barn felt odd, like all that dust settled inside me somehow, making me feel dirty. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before they emptied out, the inner cities were swarming with desperation-hungry bellies, pinched guts, lousy scalps, dirty necks, and the people who made money off of it all. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He puts it on over the dirty one. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As she touched the dirty rags, her stomach rose in her throat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She had a new scar on her chin, and her dirty blond hair had been cut short and ragged, like someone had attacked it with a pair of safety scissors. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It looked as if she had one arm wrapped in a dirty sling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain’t a color, disease ain’t the Negro side a town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I couldn’t get all of the dirty bits, I grabbed a damp washcloth and a dry one from the bathroom and went over the desk again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

‘Why don’t we’, I said, ‘slip it into one of Mrs Pratchett’s jars of sweets? Then when she puts her dirty hand in to grab a handful, she’ll grab a stinky dead mouse instead.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man’s clothes were dirty and old, probably collected like his calendars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I open my basket and take out a dirty plum, wiping it on my shirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley was clattering around, cooking breakfast a little haphazardly, throwing dirty looks at her sons as she threw sausages into the frying pan. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The next time they visited, Brian’s head was wrapped in a dirty white bandage with dried bloodstains. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dirty discarded peelings were put in the prisoners’ soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re too small and too dirty, and you must be accompanied by an adult,” she said. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Bedraggled, dirty, torn uniforms, torn flesh, lost equipment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

At first blush it didn’t seem to make sense to Joe that a kid like Day would have any reason to work in a place as dirty and dangerous as the coulee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

As we get closer, the illusion weakens, but only because the glass has gotten dirty. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hands are the dirtiest parts of the body. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He passed hordes of scrawny, dirty people who seemed on the edge of death. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were also a clothes brush, a brush and comb, and a jug and basin—the latter containing dirty water which was reddened as if with blood. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It's like a giant dirty diaper is on the ceiling. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were as red as ours, and even though they wore civilian clothes, they looked dirty and had intense expressions like us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not like this, in a West Wing briefing room, his dirty emails spread out between them on the table. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just out of holoscreen range were a sink full of dirty dishes, a muddle of food containers and a sagging couch. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Last time, we beat them by a hair, but they play dirty. We know it, they know it, but the refs up here don’t.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He washed his dirty matted hair and bathed him with the soap and sponges. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He paused, rubbing Branch with his dirty bare foot. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grote comes closer, then touches the raised heart, the clasped hands, with his dirty finger. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Marriage was presented to us as a shield against other women, other men, or the corrosive monotony of dirty socks and dishwashing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The slightest infraction—an upturned collar, a missing button, dirty clothing, unshined shoes, too shiny shoes, faulty bed making—could mean a beating or death. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had on a long, dirty coat, its fur-lined sleeves ratty and stained, that looked as though he hadn’t taken it off for months. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I feel the ring—a little metal bubble, something to add texture, foreign and dirty. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The children tore at the hot firm crust with their teeth and dug out the soft, yeasty white center with dirty fingers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Captain pulled off dirty gloves and shook his head with contempt, glowering up at Chamberlain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short time later the mountains were no longer visible, hidden behind the glare of the sun, reflecting off the dirty air. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As the men finished their meals, Joe hauled their dirty dishes back to the cookhouse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Heather delicately pushes a pile of dirty clothes off my chair and perches her skinny butt on it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She began to cry, her depraved face breaking into an infant’s grimace; and they moved away from her, leaving her dirty in a dirty room, alone to face her Maker. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was dirty, she smelled, and when she wrung the cloth, dark water spilled out. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They were crudely built and dirty, the kind that would haul livestock. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Dogs trot along the narrow street, before the doors of the houses people stand and follow me with their gaze as I pass by, dirty and heavy laden. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s slipped up and accidentally said it a few times, and each time, Henry positively melts and Alex pretends not to notice, but he’s not above playing dirty here. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Short banks of dirty slush are pushed against the edges of the road. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“While we were asking some Questions, she walked up to me and put into my hands a dirty old needle book, with various small pockets in it.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time I didn’t mind getting dirty. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d say Violet washed and ironed those handkerchiefs because, crazy as she was, raggedy as she became, she couldn’t abide dirty laundry. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The books changed, the dirty laundry rotated items, but the fundamentals remained constant. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The words feel dirty, as dirty as a lie in his mouth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dingy, but not as dirty as Train Ear’s tank top. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The women didn’t wear their hair long enough to trail behind them, and for good reason: The streets were as dirty as the streets of any city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The pervert’s lip curled back to show broken dirty teeth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your hands are dirty. Don’t you ever wash?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t get back to Shalimar fast enough, and when he did get there, dusty and dirty from the run, he leaped into the car and drove to Sweet’s house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stripped off his dirty clothes and wrapped his bandages in plastic. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Something you breathed in or ate, or picked up from the dirty money other people had touched. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dirty, as in street fighting, as in jokes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was horrific, a dark, dirty green. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The boys run down The street, With shame smeared On their dirty faces. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives me a mug of tea and I watch her roll up his trouser legs and peel away the dirty bandages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The storm had blown out the July humidity, leaving behind clean air and a dirty road. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Bye-bye now,” she said, and Tyler shuffled off, giving Luke a dirty look. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was lying on my own bed, bloody and dirty, but safe. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sits up even straighter, elegant on a crate in a dirty basement where people lost their lives. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Harry had not expected Hermione’s anger to abate overnight, and was therefore unsurprised that she communicated mainly by dirty looks and pointed silences the next morning. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sophie saw that under the cloak he was wearing a sort of collarless shirt and a dirty old leather waistcoat that didn’t seem to have any buttons. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the dirty asphalt of an alley, tucked into a corner between a brick wall and a green Dumpster. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The front room looked tacky and dirty and she saw Mister Brannon notice everything. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were dirty, desperate, and on the run. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had very large eyes and his hair was a dark wiry dirty shock. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not that he had dirty fingernails, or anything like that but some large bird seemed to have been nesting in his hair. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of a world in the process of making itself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to tell him. Besides it won’t do no good. He’s a boy and he don’t care if he is dirty.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grapefruit drops with a thud and rolls near my chair like a dirty softball. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As he dressed, he realized that coming out of a shower full of boys he felt both the cleanest and the dirtiest of any other time in his life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom answered, a spoon in one hand, the dirty Kleenex in the other. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She took me north to El Paso, and years later she laughed about how long she had waited for me in that village full of dirty stupid people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A killer whale surfaced beside the ship, its black sides glistening and its white patches tinged a dirty yellow by algae. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

With everything else it is the same, Red Cross, Community Chest, Boy Scouts, Dora’s unsung, unpublicized, shameless dirty wages of sin lead the list of donations. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dirty dress covered most of the bones. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bring the coffee to you. I’ve got some dirty stories written by a French queen. They might be too—” “You bring ’em with the coffee,” she said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed down on the handle of the toilet, but it didn’t flush; the lid of the toilet tank was leaning against the wall and the floor was covered with dirty water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since the shooting, he'd been wearing the same clothing, bloody and dirty from lying on the station floor. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Are your dirty blade and even dirtier habits supposed to mean something?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No matter how much I tell myself that my friends would never call me dirty names, I feel buried under the Doctorita’s insults. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war is dirty and brutal and difficult. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He started to yell for Dusty, thought better of it, and went to work arranging the dirty stuff himself. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she pushed back a stray lock with dirty fingers, leaving a dark streak on her face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lumpy as the skinny puppy Conner had found, wrapped in a dirty blanket by a trash bin. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Stanley was surprised that he himself hadn't gotten sick— either from the sploosh, the dirty water, or from living on onions. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mam says, That driver is nothing but a dirty old drunkard, God forgive me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

New York was dirty and smelly like every city Nate had ever visited. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. García pushed through the crowd and pulled me away from the mess, while one of the servers dragged a dirty mop across it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nothing littered the floor, not even one dirty sock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn’t hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Now, it was torn and dirty, but I kept patching it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, she looks plump and respectable, but for all her prim and proper, Aibileen can still tell a dirty joke that’ll make you tinkle in your pants. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He held up the dirty roll of overalls. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Within minutes the girls were playing house with Delsa and Norma, while I chased the boys up and down the alley, getting good and dirty. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You are very dirty! There is water in tub if you wish to clean!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The dirty water falls into the river beneath the palace and then flows to the Waterway.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the men held Sutic down as the people filed by the bowl, dipping their feet, dirty from the work in the fields, into it one by one. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

X-Ray looked at the tube, then rubbed his dirty glasses on his dirty shirt and looked at the tube again. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any dirty clothes in your room? I’m doing darks.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Laundry soap, knitting wool, and a special syrup to strengthen the lungs were distributed free, for Trueba did not want anyone dirty, cold, or sick living on his land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was a dirty old man then, how dirty is he now? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The honeymoon suite was dank and cold and dirty brown. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“She likes to bow, neh? Is she always this dirty? I work in field, I like dirt! The cold! Come in, come in.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It whirled bits of dirty papers along the gutters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one room I had to kick a pair of dirty sandals under a charpoy. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was damp and dirty, but otherwise perfect. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday we climbed up to the roof and cleaned out the gutters, since they were overflowing now every time it rained and the dirty water was staining the corners of the Perfect House. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The bartender touched an edge with a dirty fingertip and rocked it slightly back and forth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Banana leaves cover the dirty glass like papery window blinds leaving long narrow triangles for my eye. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he called Brandon one of the dirty, horrible, vile names that had been scrawled in the vandalized yearbook. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tattered and grimy clothes, dirty hair, hollow gazes—the crowds attention was entirely fixed on the two newcomers. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Stella is lying in a pile of dirty hay. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He buried his dirty clothes at the bottom of the hamper and dug all his leftover birthday and Christmas money out of his sock drawer. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He ignored us as he inspected jars filled with dark disgusting liquids and dirty sprigs of herbs on the shelves behind the cauldron, deciding what else to throw in the concoction simmering within. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Eberts hired professional gardeners and various domestic troubleshooters—plumbers, electricians, and handymen arrived in step vans to do their dirty work—but the Crows always hired neighborhood people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I returned the snails and brushed my dirty hands on my coat. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You are responsible,” said my mother, which meant I was in trouble if anything was spilled, burned, lost, broken, or dirty. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lamely drop the pitcher behind me into a pile of dirty clothes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The first one in was Six-Fingers, wearing an undershirt and dirty blue shorts and flip-flops. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Buffoon!” cried the fat knight “Well,” said Lancelot, “it is your own fault You should not play dirty tricks. For the last time, will you let me arm like a gentleman?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m dressed as a mestizo, and I don’t speak their language and they have to notice how uncomfortable I feel in this dirty house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s one dirty floor,” I say as I slip the hot burning words into his pocket. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Her face was dirty and her hair uncombed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“None I can think of. ’Less you want to call dirty looks a way of speaking.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the Weekday Warriors, who got to go home every weekend, had beer and liquor stashed everywhere from toilet tanks to the bottoms of dirty- clothes hampers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Robert Finch was filled up with trouble from his dirty boots to the brim of his scraggly hat. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet— Inside, from a place Matt didn’t know existed, a host of voices rose: Here’s the dirty little secret, Tam Lin whispered in his ear. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull some more—not caring that I’m dirty and my eyes still sting. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were dirty shoes in the corner, medical books beside the bed, pictures on the bureau. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was bareheaded and his face was dirty, but he was unscathed, standing before her with an object in his hands. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

With the finest ink and paper, he painted a mountain of gold, but only a pile of dirty stones sprang from the page. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But when Miss Kinnian reads the report she gets angry and tears the pages up because they’ve got dirty words in them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The low ridge of snow that had collected against the bottom of the door collapsed onto the dirty linoleum inside. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was not uncommon for some desperate, enterprising shebeen queen to throw dirty shoes, tobacco leaves or dirty underwear into the brew to speed up fermentation, so as to sell it before the next raid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cheap walls, dirty paint, plastic furniture, plastic flowers on the counter. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My dirty fingers skittered across the shiny surface like skates. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I told Katie that my mom was on her way back to school with my trombone, so she didn’t give me the dirty look right away. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were mostly families in front of us, looking dirty and tired. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This day is doing me dirty on goodbyes. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everything was in a state of disarray—sewing projects abandoned upon the spinnet, shutters drawn, dogs sleeping on the settee, dirty plates and platters still lain on the table, the food crusted to their rims. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z