dirt

Example Sentences

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He nudged me, and I looked down at the dirt, where he had drawn a crude map of the perimeter of the camp, an X marked in the southeast corner, farthest from the guard tower.

From Literature

As other passengers hurried up the banks of the shore to a dirt road, he hesitated, looking anxiously around himself, then smiled as a tall boy came toward us.

From Literature

Times got them too, generating “Cohen’s Secrets” and “Cohen’s Big Deals” headlines . . . and questions about why the man still walked free if authorities had all that dirt on him.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s coming from the direction of the dirt trail, so I follow it.

From Literature

They’d used the records laid down in rock and dirt over centuries and millennia to weave a story of what had happened long ago.

From Literature