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    gritty example sentences

    gritty


    1. It was arid and gritty, mixed in with bits of flint and twigs; there was even a pistachio shell


    2. The gritty reality is not quite so pretty


    3. Sheena sat at the desk, rubbing her face with gritty hands


    4. "Have you carried out my instructions?" The voice was harsh and gritty


    5. He looked at her through a flutter of his eyes and said with a shallow, gritty voice:


    6. Gritty snow blasted into eyes


    7. He shoved forward with boots scrabbling for grip on the gritty trampled snow over slick ice, his sword stabbing at the foe shield-wall from beside his arrow-filled shield


    8. the nitty and the gritty of my address


    9. "Why are you shutting down all outside communications, Mister Cross?" His deep voice came across as more gritty and gravely than usual


    10. This was the Gulagh Nem imagined: grungy, gritty, and dangerous

    11. Cold, gritty and full of broken branches


    12. It was dark, scary, gritty, and a nice twist on the vampire story, as well as perfect for a monster movie


    13. One moment the sheets were as gritty as sandpaper, the next they were as warm as a hot poker


    14. was a gritty town


    15. The demon stuffed the gritty gag back into her mouth


    16. That night the host was Steve Martin with musical guests Randy Newman and The Dirt Band – they were no longer nitty and gritty


    17. She did seem to appreciate the gritty reality aboard the Nostromo


    18. driveway on the gritty sand that lay scattered upon the concrete


    19. skincolor over the gritty little drama on the stone below


    20. was admired for this, the willingness to face the gritty reality of her policies, no

    21. stared at the man who, at the sight of Shoop’s gritty malevolence, became very


    22. smiled and tried to reconcile by putting his gritty hand on her


    23. Homer’s engine was clogged with gritty sand


    24. His eyes were gritty and he was tired - he and James had taken turns to keep watch while the other slept


    25. ‘I’ve told you everything, unless you want to hear the nitty gritty of how she had sex with my boyfriend


    26. were still pretty gritty from our roll in the sand


    27. ” I said, “That would have been a little too gritty with the sand


    28. she wiped a hand across her gritty eyes


    29. Then his eyes became gritty which was a prelude to a persistent dry cough and rasping throat


    30. Outside the wind was strong and a sudden gust blew in through the doorway sending a gritty cloud of dust into their faces

    31. It stank of smoke and horse dung, made eyes sting and left skin feeling gritty


    32. “Because you’d have told me all the gritty details by now


    33. Falling forward, he pressed his palms flat on a damp and gritty stone floor that offered no compassion


    34. The heat of anger thrust itself up into his chest and he leaned forward to Denver, his voice suddenly gritty


    35. They didn't cover that well, were gritty and more expensive


    36. And the gritty texture just gave it a little something else


    37. But now the nitty gritty reality of films about poor people like: Mean Streets, and Midnight Cowboy, and plays about poor people like Death of a Salesman, and On the Waterfront are long past


    38. Gritty Dirt Band was just taking the stage


    39. They still felt gritty, but I had to have gotten all the sand and dust washed out of them by now


    40. Are they supposed to be that gritty?” he asked

    41. sticky; the water dribbled down his face and left a gritty, dirty


    42. Her eyes felt gritty and tired, as did the rest of her, as she walked into the station


    43. But his surge of gritty determination refused to let him even contemplate reversing his hard won decision and so, with a muttered prayer, he stepped forward into the hurtling roar


    44. love – this was a gritty sort of sand that stuck in the


    45. The smell of mold and dank water made me wrinkle my nose, and the floor under my feet was gritty with broken glass and dirt


    46. They were like pale pebbles mixed with a gritty gray gravel


    47. It was less coolly majestic, at once more ordinary and more immeasurable in its gritty authority


    48. Crumbling brick warehouses, oil storage tanks, rusting cranes, and gritty factories lined both sides of the waterway


    49. Rock dust, gritty and irritating, swirled around him, got in his eyes, his mouth, and his nose


    50. He hailed from Anacortes, then a gritty lumber and fish-canning port fifty miles north of Seattle















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    Synonyms for "gritty"

    game gamey gamy gritty mettlesome spirited spunky coarse-grained farinaceous grainy granular granulose mealy

    "gritty" definitions

    composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency


    willing to face danger