Sentences with phrase «on dingy»

Moisten a cloth with the bubbly or pour it directly on dingy spots — then buff with a cloth and rinse with plain water.

At first, Brown rowed out to the 25 - foot long whale on a dingy and attempted to cut the net from there.

On the dingy bathroom wall is a gift he received from another central figure, Lawrence Weiner: a text piece that says in red, «the trace of an action past, i.e. a wet place.»

Earning 12 percent on a dingy rental property in a high - crime area isn't the same as earning 12 percent on a sparkling rental property in a high - end, luxury resort.

To the chagrin of pregnant women terrified of giving birth on a dingy Metro platform, due dates are far from certain.

Not exact matches

Actually, the bots will figure this all out on their own, sensing when the grass is getting too long, the garage floor is looking dingy, and the dishes are fully loaded and ready to wash.

Suddenly, these dingy bits of metal on the pawn shop counter are important pieces of Americana.

Just weeks before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. walked into our Friday afternoon meeting in the dingy basement of Fellowship Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side.

If Germany had then gone on to destroy the Soviet Union, we would have been powerless to resist being absorbed into Hitler's new order, if only as a dingy, remote, and declining satellite.

That day, in my dingy living room, I felt a light switch on.

When we first meet Theo he is on the run, in a dingy hotel room in Amsterdam, and in a state of high anxiety, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Petersen is held on the second floor of a shabby - walled, musty - aired building on Chicago's dingy - gray South Side, and it admittedly belongs to a bygone age of bowling.

Grant spent an hour at the dingy massage parlour, named «FuFu's», on an industrial estate, in the village of Horton Heath, four miles from Portsmouth's training ground in Eastleigh, Hampshire, on December 18.

Arsene Wenger was understandably happy after his Arsenal team not only managed to beat an in form Newcastle United on Saturday, but managed to do it in such a convincing fashion that instead of having personal abuse hurled at him in a dingy train station in Stoke, the Frenchman heard «there's only one Arsene Wenger «ringing around the Emirates stadium.

FRIED SCALLOPS Sirs: As one very concerned about the increasing number of shanty towns that are making their dingy appearance along most of our country's once - beautiful shores, it did my morale good to read Pamela Knight's article on the work Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin is doing in California (Shelters on a Scalloped Shore, March 28).

Cloth Diapers typically get dingy and gray because of detergent residue, dirt, and water mineral deposits that build - up on the diaper fabric.

You can see crumbs on the carpet or the dingy soapscum in the bathtub.

Travelers to the dingy LaGuardia Airport on the northern tip of Queens have long grumbled about the commute.

Culturing stem cells by day, and audiences in dingy stand - up clubs by night, it wasn't until Helen Pilcher left the lab that she started basing her comedy on science.

Often, our thoughts go off on a tangent on their own, and without intending to, we might find ourselves in a dark and dingy corner of our imagination.

And I'm considering recovering the cushion on our acrylic x-bench to something more interesting (plus the white cover has gotten a little dingy after two moves in twelve months!).

It's a chance to get more people on board with the idea and let people know that it's more than just old dirty clothes in a dingy little charity shop — it's a chance to recycle clothes that are perfectly usable and stop them from ending up on landfill sites.

In yet another shot, Driver soaks in a dingy clawfoot tub (such bohemia) while Dunham perches on the side, wearing an elegant off - the - shoulder dress by Dolce & Gabbana.

Whites can get a bit dingy with age, as we all know, but bleach, vinegar, Oxyclean, and other easy treatments can work wonders on a greying or yellowing item.

Since mine is on the verge of looking dingy, (I wear it quite a bit) I'm tempted to purchase this updated version.

Most of my so called matches are either extremely overweightor haven't shaved in a while or are wearing a dingy yellow white t - shirt with holes in it, men without teeth, back - woods southern rednecks with their «wife beater» t - shirts on... it's true..

Soon we're back where we started, in his dingy apartment, as he strikes a cheesecake pose on top of several barrels of gasoline and flicks his lit cigarette.

The hilarity of a former dentist going to clean up a dingy - toothed fellow named Candie is not lost on me.

Despite every effort to save his home, Carver comes in like the Grim Reaper to bring reality to the situation, and soon Nash is forced into living in a dingy motel with his mother (Dern, Wild) and young son (Lomax, Safe Haven) on the hope that he can find a way to legally get his home back.

The story starts, it seems, in France, and expands to the rest of the world as garage spreads from dingy cellars to massive clubs, carried in this version of the tale on the shoulders of Paul, a French DJ who encounters enormous success... and all the troubles that come with it.

The only work he can get is as a session musician on a ropey single and some nights he performs at the dingy Gaslight in the Village.

Of course the location checks all the other boxes on the scary list, with abrupt sound effects serving as the motivation for «jump scenes» and dark, dingy rooms revealing visual frights.

It is one of the most stunning FPS» we have played on a console to date and whether you're flying around a metropolitan city or dingy alleys of Vekta, you really have to admire just how brilliant the visuals are, even in the multiplayer mode, that runs at a beautiful 1080p and 60 fps.

The film was previously released on Blu - ray in the UK by Master of Cinema, and their disc looks similarly dingy, but not to the point of distraction.

So instead of working within the palatial 5th Avenue offices of top beauty brand LeClaire, she is stuck in a basement workspace in dingy building off an alleyway, working on the «online» forgotten section of the company's website with one pretty non-verbal and sometimes pants-less workmate, Mason (Adrian Martinez).

It opens with a speeder chase through a dingy tunnel, segues to a sequence set on a twilit smoky battlefield, and the big moment when the Millennium Falcon is first revealed (as the «Star Wars» theme swells majestically in the background) takes place in an inky cave.

If you first saw Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, as I did, in a dingy cellar on the Edinburgh fringe 15 years ago, you may struggle to wrap your head around the scale of their new tour.

Equally, though background music was a welcome and pleasant addition to this traditionally silent game, Collavier surely could have settled for something that didn't sound like a) the elevator music of a really dingy hotel or b) the exceptionally bland music businesses play when they put you on hold on the phone?

Wondering whether there is a shower in the dingy digs and realizing that even peeing will not be as easy as it is in New York despite the big city's lack of public johns, Kim, who at first thinks she doesn't have what it takes to last for the three - months» assignment, winds up spending three years — and all because on a Skype call to her NY boyfriends she discovers that he has another friend with benefits back home.

When I think over the years, I focus on remembering my beautiful, brilliant students, and the moments when we were both learning — in Yosemite and the Grand Canyon, as well as in our dingy portables and classrooms.

This kit from Solution Finish has everything you need to restore that dingy black trim on your car.

Most startling of all, for the survivors and rescue workers both, was the realization that the main dusty square was rooted so firmly by half a dozen massive trees, trees that had gone all but unnoticed in all those years, their shadows dingy with commerce, their branches cranked low with hanging wares, their droppings of mulberry collected and sold — until the bomb had loosened the green gums of the trees and sent down a shower of leaves, which Mr. Khurana kicked up on the ground as he tried to uncover the bodies of his two sons.

Smith draws scenes that stick in the head: ice - skating on a frozen river in Holland, the smell of paint and varnish in a dingy Brooklyn studio, a pristine art gallery in New South Wales.

he said, referring to his dingy offices on the southern edge of the Altstadt.

When I looked at them, with the front lighting turned off, the screen on the Voyage looked a little whiter, while the Glowlight Plus looked a little dingy.

Pouring your heart and soul into a manuscript, then spending an hour on a free, terrible cover that you kludged yourself — with poor photoshop skills — is like devoting months of hard work to your diet and the weights at the gym, then going to the beach in dingy, grease - covered auto shop coveralls.

Carry your cat politely and let the handle and your arm do the moving, not the carrier (no wonder so many cats pee in their carrier or hate it if it sways like a dingy on a choppy sea!).

Plastic self feeders with dirty build - up on their surfaces were attached to the pen walls (3.9 (b)- Feeding), and metal water buckets full of brown dingy water were on the pen floors (3.10 - Watering).

When rescuers first met Duffy, he was slumped on the floor of a dark and dingy room in a puppy mill.

I know that for most people, Mexico this time of year means beaches, beer funnels, lounge chairs, diving excursions, 600 - thread count sheets, sunny weather, and nights slept on the floor of dingy jail cells while being protected by someone named «Big Hector» who for some reason has taken an interest in your well - being (okay, that last one may only apply to me).