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Recent Examples of grime
Noun
The interior jets target the inner surfaces of bottles, while exterior sprays scrub away external grime from pump parts and teething toys. Nia Bowers, USA Today, 8 July 2025 Stormzy, the multi-award winning British rapper, singer and songwriter and the most recognizable name to come out of London’s grime scene, has moved into film and TV production with the launch of #Merky Films. Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 June 2025 For furniture, a wood cleaner will remove any dirt and grime without harming the surface. Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 29 June 2025 The grime was exhilarating, and the glamorous boutiques opening between old-world vestiges — hat stores, bridal shops — gave the neighborhood a sense of urgency. Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for grime
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grime
Noun
  • But after Freddie Freeman worked a four-pitch walk, Smith pounded a first-pitch sinker into the dirt.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 July 2025
  • If your windows are heavily dirty, let the solution sit for a couple of minutes to loosen the dirt.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
Verb
  • However, the damage was done, thanks to the anchoring bias where the news broke, it was already stained in people’s memory.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • It was stained in several places, disintegrating around the edges, and already yellowing due to years of exposure to air and sunlight and, quite possibly, pipe tobacco.
    Darcy Ballantyne July 16, Literary Hub, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • And years of exposure to heat, chemicals, and environmental muck can also strip away some of your hair’s natural gloss, leaving it looking duller, Dr. Lo Sicco notes.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 9 July 2025
  • Now, less than two months later, the muck and mud of historic flooding had returned.
    Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • Some were prosthetic buttocks, but others were people’s own buttocks, but in various states, like dirtied down and with partial covering.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 July 2025
  • Crow-Armstrong has dirtied up the White Sox in six of those games, batting .458 with eight RBIs and a homer.
    Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The book deftly expresses both grief for all of the violence perpetrated on American soil and a profound love for all of the beings that inhabit this continent.
    The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 23 July 2025
  • Compost is an all-purpose, slow-release soil amendment that provides a wide range of nutrients to plants while improving the health and structure of the soil.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • Some dishes don’t quite live up to their big ideas: a pot of mussels steamed with chickpeas and spicy ’nduja arrived a little on the dry side, and a Caesar salad, topped with crunchy bits of anchovy, the lettuce blackened on the grill, was blobbily overdressed.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 6 July 2025
  • Detectives described bruises all over Gray's body, face, and neck along with severe swelling to her face and eyes, which were blackened.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The harbor neighborhoods are probably the most polluted part of a very polluted city, owing to the filth that the port generates.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
  • Many insightful paragraphs are reading me for filth.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025

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“Grime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grime. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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