dirt

Example Sentences

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As she drove past in her 2015 Ford Explorer, the dirt churned beyond her window.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 5, 2026

"This is a horror movie. We didn’t have to survive a war, but we could not against nature," says Celida Sequera, a 43-year-old volunteer with her face and clothes covered in dirt.

From Barron's • Jul. 4, 2026

“I started moving dirt and I started shaping it.”

From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026

Eshtiwi in summertime is only reachable by a dirt track and, before AFP's visit, it had been years since international media had reached the village.

From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026

The path was really nothing more than a thin slice of trodden-down dirt between waist-high underbrush that sloped continually upward.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin