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• The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.From the entry texture
• In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts.2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Aug…. From the entry Rio de Janeiro
• In this hard-boiled version of the Batverse, the characters were gritty, tough and more realistic.2011, Tyler Brown, "'Batman: Noel' a dark tale, reversion of old classic", Kansas State Collegian (Kansas State University), Volume 117…. From the entry Batverse
• Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street.1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for…. From the entry amorphous
• Up to this point, True Romance has the makings of a gritty, off-kilter, romance movie meets road movie.2015, Adilifu Nama, Race on the QT: Blackness and the Films of Quentin Tarantino, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry off-kilter
• It was spent supervising sandcastles and shell collections, soggy towels and gritty kids, with hardly a minute to ourselves for sunbaking.2006, Sharyn Munro, The Woman on the Mountain, ReadHowYouWant, published 2010, page 249. From the entry sunbake
• Id est, a gritty, bent-tube lamp standard he designed for Clontarf, has been licensed for production by the London manufacturer, Urbis.2003 March 16, Shane O’Toole, “Architecture: Designer with a dream”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry id est
• Despite its gritty socialistic romanticism, it's also an unabashed charmfest.2003 August 15, Desson Howe, “Bardem's Time to Shine”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2016. From the entry charmfest
• A meandering central circulation path evokes a streetlike ambience, reinforced by gritty materials, including the old warehouse's original concrete floor.1998, Justin Henderson, Workplaces and workspaces: office designs that work. From the entry streetlike
• Eyes and ears were full of the gritty earth particles, and at times it seemed that they would suffocate.1928, Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand, page 136. From the entry black blizzard
• A no-holds-barred, gritty – albeit often comic – portrait of the travails of a disparate group of misfits navigating Edinburgh’s dark, drug-riddled underbelly.2023 July 2, David Barnett, “‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now”, in The…. From the entry no-holds-barred
• The boy is pinched and bled, heated and cooled, sprinkled with powders, spread with salves and a gritty mucilage of peony seeds and cat’s cruor.2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, pages 70-71. From the entry cruor
• Tempting a stomachache for the sweet, gritty satisfaction of a licked beater has always been a game of roulette that I'm willing to play.2021 December 29, Rachel Gutman-Wei, “A Very Radical, Very Delicious Take on Risk Management”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic…. From the entry licked
• The part of the eyelid that is the location of the lacrimal caruncle, which produces rheum or "sleep," the gritty substance often present when awakening.2019, Jahangir Moini, Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 780, entry "Medial canthus". From the entry sleep
• In the gritty visual, we see the L.A. native booling with his friends in his city’s streets, in cars, outfitted in red clothing.2018 March 13, Tara C. Mahadevan, “YG Reps His Set in the New Video for "Suu Whoop"”, in Complex, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022. From the entry bool
• There are plenty of gritty, beautifully choreographed scenes, with surprises like enemy soldiers popping out of the sand and Romeo and Juliet-esque fake-out death potions.2002 September 26, Eva Simonich, “The Four Feathers”, in Buzz (The Daily Illini), number 160, Champaign, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15…. From the entry Romeo and Juliet-esque
• Coolio, the gritty rapper best known for his hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” died from the effects of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner.2023 April 6, McKenna Oxenden, “Fentanyl Contributed to Coolio’s Death, Medical Examiner Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry fentanyl
• Rupert Baynham: I went to a quite Hogwartsy public school, where everyone seemed to be obsessed with street culture, with films that were gritty and edgy and street.2021 November, “Rupert Baynham & Bertrand Desrochers about A BRIXTON TALE”, in European Children’s Film Association Journal, page 29…. From the entry Hogwartsy
• “Andy Rausch has a tight noir style that combines gritty, realistic drama with a cinematic flair that makes for a powerful, compelling (somewhat Stephen Kingesque), authentically visual reading experience.”2016, Josh Hancock, The Devil and My Daughter, Bridgeport, WV: Burning Bulb Publishing, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry Stephen Kingesque
• These are fantasy stories set in the gritty streets of a modern city environment and are peopled with faeries, elves, dragons and other beings from folklore.2009, Kelly Ethan, “Two worlds: Weaving romance with fantasy”, in Valerie Parv, editor, Heart & Craft: Bestselling Romance Writers Share…. From the entry elfpunk
• The light plays over her glowing face, and her Rapunzelian hair cascades down her shoulders in perfect contrast to the hard, gritty surface of the walls.2003, Clifford S. Ackley, Ronni Baer, Tom Rassieur, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, page 128. From the entry Rapunzelian
• Totally decadent!’) had a gritty texture and cornfloury taste, the chilled apple crêpe turned out to be an icy triangular wedge of apple lined with a strip of pancake.1989, Nigella Lawson, review, in The Spectator, volume 262, numbers 8373–8385, London, →ISSN, page 35, column 3. From the entry cornfloury
• Some of the Everglades die-hards trace back to the gritty pioneering Gladesmen who settled in the wilderness and survived off the land, much like the Miccosukees and Seminoles before them.2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times. From the entry Miccosukee

Meaning of gritty

1. adjective Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
2. adjective Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
3. adjective Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.

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How do you use gritty in a sentence?

Gritty is used as an adjective. For example: “That goth woman is very gritty.”

What is a short sentence with gritty?

“That goth woman is very gritty.”

What does gritty mean?

Gritty means containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.