How to Use dirtbag in a Sentence

dirtbag

noun

• The first is more music, for the indie dirtbags in the house.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
• Check out some of our favorite tales from Chouinard’s dirtbag days below.
  — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
• Everyone looks like a dirtbag just by virtue of being so stifled in polyester.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• The other was his older brother, who’s a bit of a dirtbag himself.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024
• Below, shop 6 grungy knits to channel your inner teenage dirtbag, too.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2022
• Carnage is for the most part, in ways that count, another dirtbag delight.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2021
• Dirtbike gear for fashion dirtbags seems to have firmly arrived.
  — Liz Raiss, GQ, 22 May 2018
• The show revolves around a group of imbecilic dirtbags, each one more inept than the next.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 17 Sep. 2017
• Because right now, being loudmouth dirtbags might just be the only thing this team has going for it.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
• A lot of people were still dying and the sponsors got scared of the sport and left it to be this dirtbag, on the edge [hobby].
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
• The park has cozy lakeside cabins on-site, while dirtbag purists can stay at the 138-acre campground.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2018
• But unlike the average dirtbag, your pup needs a little more substance to stay fueled over long days on the trail.
  — Outside Online, 5 July 2022
• So, from the climber’s point of view, a dirtbag is just someone who’s really in nature, who’s constantly on the road.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
• What could be more simultaneously gourmet and dirtbag-friendly than that?
  — Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 27 July 2022
• Maybe that’s why the husband figure (Scoot McNairy) is portrayed as a dirtbag.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
• There reside the morally complicated men, if not outright dirtbags.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 July 2024
• Wearing the same outfit on the plane, while exploring new countries, while climbing and hiking, and back on the airplane again could pin you as a dirtbag.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2019
• This whippet-thin dirtbag dreamboat stands up to a belligerent jerk harassing customers and clearly itching for a brawl.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2022
• Uncle Grant is certainly much scarier than the dirtbag that is Lord Lovat.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
• The dirtbag who accidentally became a billionaire and then gave it all away reminds us that some paradoxes are meant to be lived with, not solved.
  — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• Colin Jost is two years out of Harvard and looks like a total Staten Island dirtbag.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 5 June 2024
• The best of these images, with their untrammeled dirtbag energy and their middle-aged melancholy, are expressive in a way that borders on the absurd.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2021
• Stone portrays himself as a dandy and a dirtbag, a sleazeball who embodies the rage and drive for fame that sits at the heart of the worst corners of American politics.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 24 Aug. 2018
• But her videos play less like gossip vlogs and more like the work of an NPR pundit crossed with a true-crime enthusiast and a dirtbag podcaster.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2022
• My first exposure was hearing Rock & Roll Animal on the radio, as a 13-year-old dirtbag.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• In service of this goal, Singh had dirtbag chef extraordinaire Matty Matheson on to play some air hockey.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 May 2021
• The Mannheim, Germany label knows a delightful dirtbag garage punk band better than anyone, so why not listen to 46 of some of the best in one place?
  — SPIN, 28 Apr. 2022
• Lenny Dykstra is a former baseball player known for going to prison for bankruptcy fraud and his propensity for being a general dirtbag.
  — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 8 Sep. 2017
• To record these stories—and render a portrait of the world’s wealthiest dirtbag—Gelles retraced Chouinard’s many journeys across his 86 years.
  — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
• While this is clearly Theron’s show, McAvoy deserves notice for turning in another one of his splendid dirtbag characters.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 13 Mar. 2017