How to Use dingy in a Sentence

dingy

adjective

• He's been staying in a dingy motel.
• Choosing the wrong one can cause stains to set, fabric to shrink, and colors to fade, while white clothes will look yellow or even dingy.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Southern Living, 28 July 2024
• In the ’90s, most of the city had a dingy, low-rent feel.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 18 May 2017
• Next door there was a very dingy hotel to rent by the hour.
  — Nicole Acheampong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
• Not the dingy kind of dim, rather the cozy kind that invites you to sit down and stay a while.
  — Philip Freeman, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2024
• Freshen with paint: Over time, the walls can start to look dull and dingy.
  — Taylor Walcik, Dallas News, 5 June 2022
• The New Moms Group sits in a circle on a faux-fur rug in the homey, dingy back room.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Both start out as a brown dingy moths that fly in to lay eggs among the plantings.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 June 2017
• That dingy old gym was now a sparkling hoops cathedral.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 15 Mar. 2018
• But the palette is often as dingy as the sets, which fits the story but is hard on the eyes.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• Spawn bags have been the best bet casting to waters that have been a bit dingy in spots.
  — cleveland.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• But just beyond the banks, the hillsides, which had been dingy brown during the drought, were green and lush.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• There’s nothing like clutter to make a room feel cramped and dingy.
  — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2019
• On the morning of Feb. 15, Bragg was back in the dingy courtroom where Trump was first arraigned.
  — Michael Rothfeld Emily Woo Zeller Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• But like his Big Tech brethren, Galperin spun gold from the dingiest of spaces.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
• Their route took them under the dingy, blocklong viaduct along 63rd Street near State Street.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2018
• Under that light, my cart looked dingy, my sneakers old and gray.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 Apr. 2018
• The concrete-and-turf bunker that Gynzhul lives in is accessed via a door on a grassy mound and a dingy, steep staircase.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• The floors, hallways, kitchen, play area and living room space was cluttered, dirty and dingy.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
• Around here, the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are dingy, dirty and, in some cases, cracked and damaged.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Like him, the dingy white roadside inn — built in the 1930s by a fellow Mason — had weathered a lot.
  — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• My cramped and dingy kitchen overflowed with the shiny new tools: a paring knife, a chef’s knife, a cutting board, a Dutch oven.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2018
• In the BVI, at most mooring spots, a local would come by in a dingy to sell us ice or collect garbage for a fee.
  — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 12 July 2017
• Expect big ships, dingy factories, and lots and lots of coal.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 11 June 2018
• Some young birds’ legs may be dingy black with some greenish areas.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
• Say goodbye to dingy clothes and unpleasant smells, and hello to a fresh, clean wardrobe.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2023
• Remember that the dingier the water, the slower the approach should be.
  — Andrew Pegman, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2020
• Across the street from the hotel is a discount shopping center; the area is filled with narrow, dingy shops and hookah bars.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
• At the station on Linwood, the signs and overhead canopy are dingy and weather-beaten.
  — Aaron Randle, kansascity, 4 Mar. 2018
• The dingy, important, inescapable sludge of real life flooded back in.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024