How to Use dingy in a Sentence

dingy

adjective

• He's been staying in a dingy motel.
• In the ’90s, most of the city had a dingy, low-rent feel.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 18 May 2017
• Next door there was a very dingy hotel to rent by the hour.
  — Nicole Acheampong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
• 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
• Not the dingy kind of dim, rather the cozy kind that invites you to sit down and stay a while.
  — Philip Freeman, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2024
• Freshen with paint: Over time, the walls can start to look dull and dingy.
  — Taylor Walcik, Dallas News, 5 June 2022
• The New Moms Group sits in a circle on a faux-fur rug in the homey, dingy back room.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• The police moved out of their dingy quarters, which were on the east end of the town hall.
  — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025
• Both start out as a brown dingy moths that fly in to lay eggs among the plantings.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 June 2017
• That dingy old gym was now a sparkling hoops cathedral.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 15 Mar. 2018
• But the palette is often as dingy as the sets, which fits the story but is hard on the eyes.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• Spawn bags have been the best bet casting to waters that have been a bit dingy in spots.
  — cleveland.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• But just beyond the banks, the hillsides, which had been dingy brown during the drought, were green and lush.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• There’s nothing like clutter to make a room feel cramped and dingy.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2019
• On the morning of Feb. 15, Bragg was back in the dingy courtroom where Trump was first arraigned.
  — Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• But like his Big Tech brethren, Galperin spun gold from the dingiest of spaces.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
• Their route took them under the dingy, blocklong viaduct along 63rd Street near State Street.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• Under that light, my cart looked dingy, my sneakers old and gray.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 Apr. 2018
• The concrete-and-turf bunker that Gynzhul lives in is accessed via a door on a grassy mound and a dingy, steep staircase.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• The floors, hallways, kitchen, play area and living room space was cluttered, dirty and dingy.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
• Around here, the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are dingy, dirty and, in some cases, cracked and damaged.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Like him, the dingy white roadside inn — built in the 1930s by a fellow Mason — had weathered a lot.
  — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• The smart robot also senses when the mop is getting dingy and goes back to the station to clean it.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 19 May 2025
• My cramped and dingy kitchen overflowed with the shiny new tools: a paring knife, a chef’s knife, a cutting board, a Dutch oven.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2018
• In the BVI, at most mooring spots, a local would come by in a dingy to sell us ice or collect garbage for a fee.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 12 July 2017
• Margot’s room is dark and dingy, more like a cell with its anti-suicide windows, and the mattress shows unsavory traces of what looks very much like blood.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 May 2026
• The result can be dingy clothes, trapped odors, excess suds and even buildup inside your washing machine.
  — Ryan Brennan may 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
• That dingy look creeping across the screens and settling on every surface?
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
• Finally, dingy, discolored, or stringy towels need to get the heave-ho.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
• It can also be used alongside detergent to boost dingy whites and sanitize a load of laundry.
  — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2026