How to Use sordid in a Sentence

sordid

adjective

• He shared the sordid details of his past.
• Tracing the threads to the ghosts of SELA’s sordid past was easy.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• That is true even on days when Donald Trump makes the process look sordid.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• The Guardian has a run down of the somewhat sordid machinations.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2020
• And her role in this sordid case is about to take a dramatic turn.
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
• Whistler does skip over the Swartz book’s more salacious and sordid details.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2021
• The show also offered updates on the lives of the three people involved in one of the most sordid scandals of the '90s.
  — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
• The sordid story of a South Bronx apartment building ruled by a gang of crazed, junkie punks.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
• Watch for my sordid senescent self to slink down a boulevard near you soon.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 15 July 2022
• Degas pulls aside the curtain on a sordid truth of that dazzling world.
  — Carol Strickland, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2020
• Showalter takes too long to get to the couple’s decline, whizzing by the more sordid details.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2021
• Just a sordid story and a lack of integrity all around.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Of course, all of this is in line with Giuliani’s sordid history.
  — Photo: Tom Williams/cq-Roll Call/getty Images., refinery29.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• And despite the sordid events of last year, Smith said the city will continue to focus on the good aspects of the partnership.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• Of course, as with anything on the internet, there’s a sordid element to watch out for.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
• The search for Alfredo will reveal a sordid past fraught with greed, blackmail and a pile of gambling debts.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
• While the Fred and Gladys monikers have somewhat sad, not all royal nicknames come with such sordid stories.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2020
• In the end the truth proved to be merely sordid and mundane, a story beneath even Adamson’s standards.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• Tammy Faye Bakker’s life has all the sordid events that make playing her obvious awards bait, but what made Chastain so latch on to the role?
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
• The number of suspects keeps rising as each new, sordid detail emerges.
  — Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Harold could not have planned a better way to make sure every sordid detail of his past was made public and discussed.
  — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2021
• Adam McKay’s Death at the Wing is a bit of a sordid recommendation.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2021
• Her passions are reignited by Tedros (the Weeknd), a nightclub impresario with a sordid past.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 17 Apr. 2023
• At Cape Coast Castle on the shores of the Ghanaian city, a sordid history belies its beauty.
  — Candace Smith, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Her passions are reignited by Tedros (The Weeknd), a nightclub impresario with a sordid past.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
• But now sordid details were exposed by reporters and Starr.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• Almost daily, the story of the shootings has grown more sinister and more sordid.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2021
• After the prince married South African Charlene Wittstock in 2011, many expected to see a shift away from the days of sordid gossip.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 24 Mar. 2023
• What makes anyone think Redick’s tenure will renounce that sordid history?
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• However, history has proven that male rappers can still thrive despite the most sordid allegations.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024