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Dirty in sentence

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They feel dirty, defiled, ashamed.
Well, the first step, before we even start designing and getting our hands dirty, we have to come up with rules, kind of the laws, rules of conduct.
I was ostracized by many of my classmates, one of whom went so far as to invite me to "do what I really came here to do" as he pushed all the dirty dishes from our meal in front of me to clean up.
But, if you're invisible, people would see a human-shaped blob of dust walking around with extremely dirty soles.
We like our neighbors to see our dirty cars and our brown lawns.
But I'm going to focus on the heart of the problem, which is the fact that we still rely on dirty, carbon-based fuels for 85 percent of all the energy that our world burns every year.
It's just as vital that we protect the next veteran's health care whistleblower alerting us to overcrowded hospitals, or the next environmental worker sounding the alarm about Flint's dirty water, or a Wall Street insider warning us of the next financial crisis.
Still, the place is perceived as dirty, marginalized and segregated because of their association with the trash.
Abolishing fossil fuels means disrupting our transportation system so that we can power our cars, buses and trains with electricity instead of dirty energy.
And yet, if you ask Canadians what makes them proudest of their country, they rank "multiculturalism," a dirty word in most places, second, ahead of hockey.
RW: Wow, we sure are getting our fingers dirty for a first date, huh?
I didn't tell you one dirty little secret.
I even saw children, who looked the same age as me, filling up these clear plastic bottles with dirty water from streams on the roadside.
Watching these kids forced to drink water that I felt was too dirty to touch changed my perspective on the world.
The water looked and tasted dirty, there was never enough food, never any showers, women menstruating without any hygiene products, no medical attention whatsoever.
How can we get people to do more good, to go to the polls, give to charity, conserve resources, or even to do something as simple as washing their mugs at work so that the sink isn't always full of dirty dishes?
Growing up in West Africa, when people used the term "mental," what came to mind was a madman with dirty, dread-locked hair, bumbling around half-naked on the streets.
Just before you go on stage, it's time to fight dirty and trick your brain.
Any further talk about power and who really has it seems a little dirty, maybe even evil.
It's an urban mosquito, and it's the female that does the dirty work.
But to understand the technology, getting our hands dirty was crucial.
It dumbfounds me how the word "refugee" is considered something to be dirty, something to be ashamed of.
About a year ago, I went to Fukushima to see what the situation was there, and there's just a huge need for machines that can go into some of the dirty places and help remediate that.
"I'm running to class!" "What's one more dirty dish in the sink?"
But I still believe in a future for myself full of gleaming sinks and busy dishwashers, and so we're working on it, every day, together, moment to moment, one dirty dish at a time.
Of course the flip side to that is being unclean, or dirty, when you do have HIV.
Now, I'm not sensitive and I'm only truly dirty after a day in the field, but this is damaging language.
They didn't want to tell their family, they didn't want to tell their friends and they felt damaged, and they felt dirty.
He taught others how to make a dirty bomb to use on the London Underground, and he plotted a massive bombing campaign in London's shopping areas.
Students and faculty rolled up their sleeves, got their hands dirty and transformed the front into a warm place for people to gather.
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