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Recent Examples of grime
Noun
For stubborn grime, a deck cleaner product and a stiff brush can be effective. Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2025 For starters, a gentle facial cleanser should be used at night to wash off sweat, grime, air pollutants and anything that could clog pores and cause acne. Khanh T.l. Tran, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
On Starz’s latest offering, every wall is realistically grimed, and every plaid is laid just so. Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grime
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grime
Noun
  • Together Skelly and O’Steen buried Grimes, whom police would find covered by blankets, tarps and dirt, the defendant told the jury.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Vacuum to remove any remaining dirt that may be trapped in the rug’s fibers.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wood filler is the best choice for repairing large, deep gouges, but usually requires staining.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Inside the retro-futuristic Discoveryland area of Disneyland Paris, a full-size Star Wars X-Wing fighter sits on a silver and blue platform which looks like it has been weathered and stained from battles.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The study recommends strategic test areas of algicide and treatments to sequester nutrients after large-scale mechanical clearing of the muck.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Passing through clear plastic tubes, muck was sliced into disks like hockey pucks.
    Rodrique Ngowi, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As more success suddenly comes his way, McKinstry has remained the same, friendly and chuckling at his locker, dirtying his jersey and pestering opponents on the field.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 10 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The timing and intensity of peak foliage vary from year to year, depending on several factors, such as drought conditions, rainfall, temperature, soil content, and the types of trees, as well as cloud cover.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • But cutting down forests to plant coffee and other crops releases carbon that was stored in trees and soil into the atmosphere.
    Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • High-Heat-Safe Alternatives While enameled cast-iron cookware is excellent to use for braising, roasting, baking, or gentle stovetop cooking, certain high heat applications like searing steak or blackening fish are best done in other types of pans, like traditional cast iron or stainless steel.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Her boyfriend had hit her hard enough to blacken her eye.
    Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The open-air drug use, dealing, filth and related violence has spilled over into surrounding neighborhoods, taxing residents of those hot-spot areas.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In all, 12 dogs were inside, 10 of them puppies and two mama dogs, all emaciated, all living in filth, all in a single home, the Nashville Humane Association said.
    Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Grime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grime. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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