DINGY in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for DINGY, such as:

1. She had hated dinginess, and it was her fate to be dingy.
2. The room looked cheerless and dingy to Edna as she entered.
3. The only observation I have is the colors are a bit too gloomy and dingy.
4. The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green.
5. They were for the most part dingy, but as they were nearly always open it did not make so much difference.

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 Meanings and Examples of DINGY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dingy
 a.  darkened with smoke and grime; dirty or discolored
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  She could endure the sight of her own child in aprons made of sacking and the girls in dingy old gingham, could bear it that Will worked harder than any field hand, but not Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  Surrounding the building completely and covering the square of land of which it was the center were row after row of army huts, dingy and mud splashed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  He bowed carelessly and taking Scarlett's arm pulled her to her feet and propelled her into the dingy orderly room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
4  The wooden awnings cut off most of the winter daylight and the interior was dim and dingy, only a trickle of light coming in through the small fly-specked windows high up on the side walls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  A tall man came into the dingy room walking with a light Indian-like tread, and looking up she saw Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  Dr. Meade could tell unlovely stories of those families who had been driven from mansions to boarding houses and from boarding houses to dingy rooms on back streets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  She had hated dinginess, and it was her fate to be dingy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  She was in truth grateful for the refuge offered her: Mrs. Peniston's opulent interior was at least not externally dingy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  The outer air, penned between high buildings, brought no freshness through the window; steam-heat was beginning to sing in a coil of dingy pipes, and a smell of cooking penetrated the crack of the door.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
11  The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
12  They were for the most part dingy, but as they were nearly always open it did not make so much difference.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
13  It was there also that she ate, keeping her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
14  The room looked cheerless and dingy to Edna as she entered.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
15  These bare places were grown up with dingy, yellow weeds, hiding innumerable tomato cans; innumerable children played upon them, chasing one another here and there, screaming and fighting.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  The only observation I have is the colors are a bit too gloomy and dingy.
2  John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old, large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage.