make sb/sth dirty
Frequency: 7.022.1 per million words
To cause someone or something to become unclean.
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Examples (10)
- The soot from the fire had made everything in the room dirty.
- Playing in the mud will make your new shoes dirty.
- Be careful not to make your shirt dirty with the spaghetti sauce.
- The dog's muddy paws made the clean floor dirty.
- The factory's pollution constantly makes the nearby windows dirty.
- Working with charcoal always makes my hands dirty.
- Why did you have to make the entire kitchen so dirty just for one sandwich?
- The dusty rain made the car dirty overnight.
- Letting children paint without aprons is a sure way to make their clothes dirty.
- He tried to fix the engine himself, which only made his hands even more dirty.