dirtied

Example Sentences

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During one spurt of construction, High Point offered free carwashes and valet service because the dust dirtied vehicles and the work limited parking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Mr Darmanin also said the officer had also "dirtied and spat on the uniform of the Republic and his 250,000 other police and gendarme colleagues".

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024

It depicts the bust of Sir Ernest Shackleton, wearing dirtied yellow suspenders, his face benevolent and tough, but blurred by the thickness of the paint on canvas.

From Salon • May 29, 2023

Berlin Dye Works offered specials to clean the clothes you’d dirtied out there at the air meet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

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.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones