dirty

Example Sentences

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Think of how many other ways that $54 billion could have been invested—in AI startups, dirty soda shops, almost anything else to generate a positive return.

From The Wall Street Journal

We’re each other’s cheerleaders but can also get our hands dirty.

From Los Angeles Times

“To rebuild after that very bad, dirty time, we needed to discuss things and arrive at solutions, and at a consensus over what this new world order should look like,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's gone to China, where it's made in a dirtier way," she told the BBC.

From BBC

Coal is relatively inexpensive to produce but is the dirtiest fossil fuel, releasing considerable particulate air pollution, sulfur dioxide and mercury, and nearly twice the planet-warming carbon dioxide as natural gas.

From Los Angeles Times