dingier; dingiest
Examples of dingy in a Sentence
He's been staying in a dingy motel.
the bed sheets were pretty dingy so we threw them in the laundry pile
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Jack Clayton’s 1974 adaptation, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, comes closest to finding the balance, pitting dingy ’70s grays and a naturalistic camera against Redford at his most shiningly charismatic as Gatsby.
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Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
That transition can be rough regardless of the next step on their life’s journey, but a particularly dingy college dorm can take the experience from bad to worse.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
The basics remain the same: Four players take control of survivors attempting to escape a dingy hellhole, while a fifth takes the role of a roaming psychopath trying to kill them.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
Not the dingy kind of dim, rather the cozy kind that invites you to sit down and stay a while.
—Philip Freeman, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2025
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Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
That transition can be rough regardless of the next step on their life’s journey, but a particularly dingy college dorm can take the experience from bad to worse.
—Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
The basics remain the same: Four players take control of survivors attempting to escape a dingy hellhole, while a fifth takes the role of a roaming psychopath trying to kill them.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2025
Not the dingy kind of dim, rather the cozy kind that invites you to sit down and stay a while.
—Philip Freeman, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dingy
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“Dingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dingy. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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