Utiliser "gritty" dans une phrase

1. It was arid and gritty, mixed in with bits of flint and twigs; there was even a pistachio shell

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2. The gritty reality is not quite so pretty

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3. Sheena sat at the desk, rubbing her face with gritty hands

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4. "Have you carried out my instructions?" The voice was harsh and gritty

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5. He looked at her through a flutter of his eyes and said with a shallow, gritty voice:

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6. Gritty snow blasted into eyes

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7. He shoved forward with boots scrabbling for grip on the gritty trampled snow over slick ice, his sword stabbing at the foe shield-wall from beside his arrow-filled shield

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8. the nitty and the gritty of my address

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9. "Why are you shutting down all outside communications, Mister Cross?" His deep voice came across as more gritty and gravely than usual

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10. This was the Gulagh Nem imagined: grungy, gritty, and dangerous

11. Cold, gritty and full of broken branches

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12. It was dark, scary, gritty, and a nice twist on the vampire story, as well as perfect for a monster movie

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13. One moment the sheets were as gritty as sandpaper, the next they were as warm as a hot poker

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14. was a gritty town

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15. The demon stuffed the gritty gag back into her mouth

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16. That night the host was Steve Martin with musical guests Randy Newman and The Dirt Band – they were no longer nitty and gritty

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17. She did seem to appreciate the gritty reality aboard the Nostromo

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18. driveway on the gritty sand that lay scattered upon the concrete

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19. skincolor over the gritty little drama on the stone below

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20. was admired for this, the willingness to face the gritty reality of her policies, no

21. stared at the man who, at the sight of Shoop’s gritty malevolence, became very

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22. smiled and tried to reconcile by putting his gritty hand on her

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23. Homer’s engine was clogged with gritty sand

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24. His eyes were gritty and he was tired - he and James had taken turns to keep watch while the other slept

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25. ‘I’ve told you everything, unless you want to hear the nitty gritty of how she had sex with my boyfriend

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26. were still pretty gritty from our roll in the sand

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27. ” I said, “That would have been a little too gritty with the sand

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28. she wiped a hand across her gritty eyes

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29. Then his eyes became gritty which was a prelude to a persistent dry cough and rasping throat

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30. Outside the wind was strong and a sudden gust blew in through the doorway sending a gritty cloud of dust into their faces

31. It stank of smoke and horse dung, made eyes sting and left skin feeling gritty

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32. “Because you’d have told me all the gritty details by now

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33. Falling forward, he pressed his palms flat on a damp and gritty stone floor that offered no compassion

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34. The heat of anger thrust itself up into his chest and he leaned forward to Denver, his voice suddenly gritty

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35. They didn't cover that well, were gritty and more expensive

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36. And the gritty texture just gave it a little something else

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37. But now the nitty gritty reality of films about poor people like: Mean Streets, and Midnight Cowboy, and plays about poor people like Death of a Salesman, and On the Waterfront are long past

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38. Gritty Dirt Band was just taking the stage

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39. They still felt gritty, but I had to have gotten all the sand and dust washed out of them by now

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40. Are they supposed to be that gritty?” he asked

41. sticky; the water dribbled down his face and left a gritty, dirty

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42. Her eyes felt gritty and tired, as did the rest of her, as she walked into the station

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43. But his surge of gritty determination refused to let him even contemplate reversing his hard won decision and so, with a muttered prayer, he stepped forward into the hurtling roar

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44. love – this was a gritty sort of sand that stuck in the

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45. The smell of mold and dank water made me wrinkle my nose, and the floor under my feet was gritty with broken glass and dirt

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46. They were like pale pebbles mixed with a gritty gray gravel

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47. It was less coolly majestic, at once more ordinary and more immeasurable in its gritty authority

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48. Crumbling brick warehouses, oil storage tanks, rusting cranes, and gritty factories lined both sides of the waterway

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49. Rock dust, gritty and irritating, swirled around him, got in his eyes, his mouth, and his nose

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50. He hailed from Anacortes, then a gritty lumber and fish-canning port fifty miles north of Seattle

51. Both the Glock and the Beretta looked dry and felt gritty

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52. And then, as if his food-prayer worked, he refocused his eyes from a gritty stain on the backseat to the outside and there were ten or twenty Herefords standing in the snow for no reason

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53. YUKI SAW THAT Leonard Parisi’s office door was open and that he was at his desk, with its wide, uninspiring view of traffic and the handful of gritty low-rent businesses on Bryant Street

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54. It was warm and a little gritty, and nothing had ever tasted better to me

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55. It was gritty with old soot

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56. For lunch, we had ham sandwiches that were gritty with sand

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57. But if you have a background in statistics or calculus, or you want to get more into the nitty gritty of option pricing, this is a good starting point

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58. He touched a hand’s-width swath where the gritty surface had turned smooth

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59. I wanted with all my heart, soul, and guts to wring the bird’s neck and throw its disconnected carcass into those pale and gritty faces

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60. In the autumn of 1949, Marilyn began work on John Huston’s gritty crime drama The Asphalt Jungle, the first so-called caper film that was told from the point of view of the criminals

61. During the day they played cards, ate until they were bursting, took gritty siestas that left them exhausted, and as soon as the sun was down the orchestra began to play, and they had anisette with salmon until they could eat and drink no more

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62. The gritty light of resistance went out of her eyes

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63. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the best of training

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64. “That’s the gritty stuff, isn’t it? No, the other; and black

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65. The external qualities of this substance are as follow: small white lumps, hard to the touch, but dry and easily yielding to pressure, somewhat gritty to the teeth, and imparting an earthy and saline taste to the tongue

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