Gritty Sentence Examples

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  • They require warm sunny spots and rich gritty soil.

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  • Gritty welldrained soil.

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  • The borders should consist of 3 parts rich turfy loam, the top spit of a pasture, and i part light gritty earth, such as road-grit, with a small portion (one-sixth) of fine brick rubbish.

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  • Now it is time to get into the nitty gritty.

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  • What makes you think you killed her? My eyes feel gritty.

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  • All of them are easy to grow, and delight in gritty soil and a well-drained and sunny position on the rock garden.

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  • Choosing the best stories after 43 years of storytelling is an impossible task. Fans will all have their favorites, but many One Life To Live storylines were notable for their risk taking elements and gritty realism.

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  • Batman metamorphosed from a campy 1960s television show into a modern gritty hero as depicted in the latest movie version, Dark Knight.

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  • The common thread in the music is bluesy, gritty guitars, minimal production, and raw vocals.

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  • Featuring another rap legend, Pete Rock, The World Is Yours is smart, challenging, and like 2Pac, an example of mixing the gritty realism of gangsta rap with lyrics that wouldn't be out of place in a literary textbook.

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  • They're gritty, they look incredible, and they're just one more factor that will make those spectators remember you.

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  • Rolling green hills and desolate moors, or gritty, industrial cities?

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  • Black is a gritty action game from Electronic Arts.

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  • The wax used to help surf boards retain their "grip" also collects sand, leaving a fine gritty film on the surface that doesn't immediately wash off in the water.

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  • It is gritty and itchy and creeps into uncomfortable places.

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  • If cyberpunk action enters 'real space', it is more likely to be the crowded and dirty streets of a noir Chicago, gritty Toyko or hostile Los Angeles.

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  • Baking soda is a good ingredient to use in a homemade exfoliate because it has a smooth but gritty texture that makes it effective in polishing the skin.

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  • Just watched the first episode of ITV ' s afterlife and as predicted it was gritty and intense.

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  • A worthy opponent is waiting in the wings, the tough gritty Polish kick boxer Robert Nowak.

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  • Words cannot do justice to the startlingly diverse clientele mingling in the unpretentious gritty pub.

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  • Billy H was a great frontman, and their songs were filled with grim, gritty minutiae; proper little kitchen sink dramas.

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  • They searched harder and dug heavier for tracks on this second volume, with a musical spectrum spanning from raw funk to gritty soul.

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  • Price - Vinyl Album = £ 11.99 CD = £ 12.99 Ace debut LP from the gritty retro soul blues funk rock combo.

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  • Only slightly gritty from where the lid had come off in the tackle sack!

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  • We'd love to see you take on a really gritty role.

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  • All these ' nice ' stories are actually very gritty at their core.

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  • I also dip into London Orbital by Iain Sinclair he has the same rather gritty view of the capital.

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  • Good drainage is essential for drought tolerant plants and so gritty topsoil has been used, mounded up into bunds over rubble filled subsoil.

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  • Carl Hey, 72, and Steve Cole, 31, rebuilt the innings with gritty determination moving the visitors to 157.

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  • The best potting mixture is two parts coarse gritty sand to one part loam.

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  • Simply apply a nit treatment such as nit treatment such as Nitty Gritty nit solution and comb through.

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  • A rich patchwork of classic Fela sounds that make the feet dance but with an added gritty something.

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  • If they seem cooked through (no gritty texture at all) then the peas pilau has finished cooking.

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  • A bit of gritty realism, which I am sure got a few record executives hot under the collar.

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  • The controversial and gritty portrayal of teenage life in west London was written by actor screenwriter Noel Clarke.

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  • His gritty and often downright spiteful contributions soon earned all the wrong sort of headlines and won United infamy for their base approach.

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  • What I've heard of his music before has been dark, gritty rap about Britain ' s seedy underbelly.

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  • For some cuttings, pots filled with light soil, with the protection of the propagating-house and of bell-glasses, are requisite; but for many of our hardy deciduous trees and shrubs no such precautions are necessary, and the insertion of a short shoot about half its length into moist and gritty ground at the proper season suffices to ensure its growth.

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  • Pretty dwarf rock plants, requiring rather careful management and a gritty soil.

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  • They are culinary pears which are described as being typically hard and gritty and ripen slowly but are long keeping.

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  • What I 've heard of his music before has been dark, gritty rap about Britain ' s seedy underbelly.

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  • Locked In is a hard hitting, gritty story by award winning writer Fin Kennedy underscored by a hip hop soundtrack.

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  • Now, that you've worked out these essential details, it's time to get down to the nitty gritty and begin using that baby shower sailboat theme.

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  • Using the same gritty determination that had already won him numerous triathlete and cycling championships, Lance threw himself into treatments and rejuvenation.

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  • In 2001, Berry played the role of Leticia Musgrove, the wife of a man on death row, opposite Billy Bob Thornton, the racist prison guard whom takes part in her husband's execution in the gritty film Monster's Ball.

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  • This gritty and violent film became the catalyst that spawned not only several sequels, but launched Gibson's career in Hollywood.

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  • Her acting was gritty and moving and she drew a lot of positive reviews with this film.

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  • Gritty, sandy, or peaty soils therefore suit them best-even marsh land, though saturated, is free in texture.

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  • They grow in varied situations, some in swamps, some in dry shingly places, others on moist river-banks or the gritty mountain side.

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  • It requires an exposed spot of very sandy or gritty loam in the rock garden, where it must be surrounded by a few small stones to guard it from drought, and it must be associated with alpine plants.

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  • It is, however, pretty and worth a place on open parts of the rock garden, in gravelly or gritty soil.

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  • The chief points in their culture are full exposure, plenty of sunshine, a free gritty soil, and a raised position free from stagnant moisture.

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  • It should have a sandy or gritty and moist soil on the rock garden among the smallest plants.

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  • Very gritty moist loam in the rock garden is best for it.

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  • It seems to do best in a light gritty soil, and the seed should be sown directly it is ripe.

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  • The rarest of these Sternbergias should have a place in our bulb borders, in gritty or open soil, associated with the rarer Narcissi and choice hardy bulbs.

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  • This plant should be exposed to the full sun, in crevices situated between two rocks, and where the roots can penetrate gritty or stony soil to the depth of 3 feet.

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  • It should be grown in gritty peat mixed with a small portion of loam.

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  • Clearly removed from the gritty garage-band essence of the first two albums, the third featured polished guitar and a clean overall sound.

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  • Resistance 2 - This follow-up to the first Resistance video game offers intense first-person shooter action with gritty graphics and gruesome enemies.

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  • His narration, sometimes grim and sometimes raging, is a gritty contrast to the real satisfaction you feel after clearing Germans out of a town, or blasting away obstacles so your reinforcements can land safely.

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  • The Motor City track is gritty and industrial and the Lakeside track is sunny and cheery.

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  • The survival-horror game spawned a number of sequels with its gritty and involving gameplay.

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  • Do you prefer a bikini clad woman in a nitty gritty urban scene or a tranquil beach with gently lapping waves?

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  • However, this thong stands out because it's fashioned from a dark, gritty denim.

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  • Gritty sand, damp bathing suits and ultraviolet rays can take quite a toll, even if you're wearing sunscreen lotion.

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  • Spend some time readjusting yourself on a slightly gritty surf board, and you'll understand exactly what we're talking about.

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  • Xantham gum, along with a combination of other gluten-free flours, help avoid the gritty texture and chalky taste often associated with gluten-free yeast breads.

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  • As gritty and boisterous as Quint, the character he played, Shaw was given to fits of rage when faced with the multiple delays in the production.

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  • People really began taking notice of a young Heather Graham in the gritty film Drugstore Cowboy.

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  • This is the section to give the nitty gritty details of profit potential that every investor is looking for -- the bottom line.

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  • The podcast Knitty Gritty puts a fresh young spin on knitting projects for knitters of all levels.

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  • Ipod covers, flared leg warmers, and the latest poncho designs are a few of the hot knitting projects you will learn how to do on Knitty Gritty.

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  • It is grubby, gritty, raw, and real, just the way garage rock was intended to be.

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  • Follow this link, and you will be rewarded with not one, but eleven tunes by this gritty voiced, legendary star of outlaw country and silver screen.

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  • Despite her gritty personality, Joe'l loves her job and is willing to do whatever it takes to make a wedding successful.

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  • When you mix it with a gritty substance, it can exfoliate the skin without overdrying it.

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  • Isolated gritty fragments of minerals may be felt in the generally fine-grained homogeneous mass.

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  • Sand is by itself of little value except for striking cuttings, for which purpose fine clean sharp silver sand is the best; and a somewhat coarser kind, if it is gritty, is to be preferred to the comminuted sands which contain a large proportion of earthy matter.

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  • A South African genus of composites requiring very warm sunny spots and rich gritty soil.

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  • Requires gritty peat soil and cool situations, but must be protected from frost in winter.

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  • A rich, gritty soil, and warm, sunny situations are best for these plants., Triteleia.

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  • He became aware of the subtle movement of air beneath the front door, the cloudlike cloak clenched in his left hand and gritty dirt beneath his right, the trickle of blood down his throat to his gullet.

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  • Figures slim, muscular and bony, action impetuous but of arrested energy, tawny landscape, gritty with littering pebbles, mark the athletic hauteur of his style.

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  • Charming tuberous-rooted plants of dwarf habit, suitable for sheltered rockeries, and growing in light gritty soil.

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  • Beautiful bulbous plants, called mariposa lilies, requiring warm sheltered spots in rich gritty and well-drained soil.

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  • Sand consists of grains of quartz or flint, the individual particles of which are large enough to be seen with the unaided eye or readily felt as gritty grains when rubbed between the finger and thumb.

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  • Requires rich, gritty loam of good depth, as it produces tuberous roots I to 2 ft.

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  • Millstones and pumice were also exported, but for the former the more gritty lava of Rocca Monfina was later on preferred.

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  • Lovely bulbous plants called tiger flowers, useful in the warmest parts of the kingdom for the border in rich but gritty soil.

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  • Peat soil is largely employed for the culture of such plants as rhododendrons, azaleas, heaths, &c. In districts where heather and gritty soil predominate, the peat soil is poor and unprofitable, but selections from both the heathy and the richer peat soils, collected with judgment, and stored in a dry part of the compost yard, are essential ingredients in the cultivation of many choice pot plants, such as the Cape heaths and many of the Australian plants.

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