How to Use dirtbag in a Sentence

dirtbag

noun
  • In short, it’s a dirtbag’s paradise, with costs to match.
    Robert Annis, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Back in the 1990s, Jimmy Chin was living the dirtbag dream.
    Outside Online, 11 May 2021
  • A lot of people were still dying and the sponsors got scared of the sport and left it to be this dirtbag, on the edge [hobby].
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The park has cozy lakeside cabins on-site, while dirtbag purists can stay at the 138-acre campground.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The other was his older brother, who’s a bit of a dirtbag himself.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • And though his own upbringing was supportive, he’s had his share of dirtbags to draw on.
    Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • The show revolves around a group of imbecilic dirtbags, each one more inept than the next.
    Yohana Desta, HWD, 17 Sep. 2017
  • His dirtbag creed extended to his footwear, too: his trail shoes were repaired with duct tape.
    Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Carnage is for the most part, in ways that count, another dirtbag delight.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2021
  • So, from the climber’s point of view, a dirtbag is just someone who’s really in nature, who’s constantly on the road.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Everyone looks like a dirtbag just by virtue of being so stifled in polyester.
    Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • But unlike the average dirtbag, your pup needs a little more substance to stay fueled over long days on the trail.
    Outside Online, 5 July 2022
  • Below, shop 6 grungy knits to channel your inner teenage dirtbag, too.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The Mannheim, Germany label knows a delightful dirtbag garage punk band better than anyone, so why not listen to 46 of some of the best in one place?
    SPIN, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Wearing the same outfit on the plane, while exploring new countries, while climbing and hiking, and back on the airplane again could pin you as a dirtbag.
    Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2019
  • But her videos play less like gossip vlogs and more like the work of an NPR pundit crossed with a true-crime enthusiast and a dirtbag podcaster.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2022
  • My first exposure was hearing Rock & Roll Animal on the radio, as a 13-year-old dirtbag.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Stone portrays himself as a dandy and a dirtbag, a sleazeball who embodies the rage and drive for fame that sits at the heart of the worst corners of American politics.
    Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 24 Aug. 2018
  • Dirtbike gear for fashion dirtbags seems to have firmly arrived.
    Liz Raiss, GQ, 22 May 2018
  • The best of these images, with their untrammeled dirtbag energy and their middle-aged melancholy, are expressive in a way that borders on the absurd.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In service of this goal, Singh had dirtbag chef extraordinaire Matty Matheson on to play some air hockey.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 May 2021
  • The show also boasts a strong cast, including a dirtbag Brett Gelman and a comically villainesque Olivia Colman.
    Yohana Desta, HWD, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The dirtbag former Mets and Phillies player (and terrible financier) then proceeded to spend the rest of the evening tweeting incessantly skeezy stuff at Dunham.
    Gabriella Paiella and Jessica Roy, The Cut, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The perfect fit between Mr. Fagen’s sidelong hipster sneer and his self-loathing dirtbag narrative.
    Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • In 1998, Annie Larsen was a recovering dirtbag climber, Park Service employee, and mom of a (cough) delightful three-year-old.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2020
  • This whippet-thin dirtbag dreamboat stands up to a belligerent jerk harassing customers and clearly itching for a brawl.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The book is a nonfiction account of a team of addicts, ex-cons and semi-reformed dirtbags whose members recapture a piece of their innocence on the baseball diamond.
    Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • While this is clearly Theron’s show, McAvoy deserves notice for turning in another one of his splendid dirtbag characters.
    Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 13 Mar. 2017
  • What could be more simultaneously gourmet and dirtbag-friendly than that?
    Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 27 July 2022
  • Because what seems like a brutal display of unrequited love was the second-smartest decision Rose made in the whole movie, right after leaving that nude portrait in the safe as a checkmate to her dirtbag fiancé.
    Alexis Jones, Marie Claire, 22 Nov. 2018

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