How to Use filth in a Sentence

filth

noun

• He emerged from the cellar covered in filth.
• But the Smiths were left with piles of filth to clean up.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2024
• In the end the filth will fill four 50-gallon trash bags.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• This friend kept birds, and the birds are suffering in the filth too.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 12 May 2017
• The other is an agent of Satan, awash in filth and blood and greed and sin.
  — Sarah Posner, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
• If the job is to get very rich spewing racist filth, then one is a racist.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2019
• The dogs, intrigued by the entrails, give themselves a good roll in the filth.
  — Nathaniel Adams, Chron, 26 Apr. 2022
• No one ever did, Nepal said, and so they were forced to live in filth.
  — Zeena Saifi and Becky Anderson, CNN, 9 July 2021
• In the 19th century, city streets in the U.S. overflowed with filth.
  — Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2020
• Give the air filter a look, too, and replace that if it's packed with filth.
  — Matt Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
• Who can even imagine what filth is mixed in with this sand?
  — Samantha Leac, Glamour, 16 Aug. 2021
• The stench is meant to evoke filth, gangrene and the barnyard, Gibbons Backus said.
  — Jonathan Hunley, Washington Post, 28 May 2017
• Nope, here’s a group of LGBT liberal filth in line with you.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 Dec. 2017
• Police said the home was layered in filth, trash was piled in the kitchen, and the living room was filled with garbage.
  — Chris Ramirez, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Not for the sheer filth of it, though that was problematic.
  — Sarah Bowman, IndyStar, 2 May 2020
• The streets teem with filth, steam, darkness and crowds of people with hollow stares.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
• And even scarier, he’s got Billy Porter reading him for filth in the British press.
  — Vulture, 9 Aug. 2023
• Every one of those filth should have been locked up and charged by the US Attorney up there.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2017
• How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to [Christ]!
  — Paul Schemm, The Seattle Times, 20 Aug. 2018
• Still, the linoleum tiles in the kitchen have long since disappeared under layers of filth.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Photos taken by the ACLU showed men sleeping on floors amid filth and garbage.
  — Keri Blakingerstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• But the light returns, and there’s nothing like spring light to display the winter filth on the windows.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Without a way to remove sewage from their homes, people live in filth.
  — Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• And while a vacuum gets most of the initial mess, a mop is the best option for hidden filth.
  — Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2022
• The linemen saved the pups, who had been covered in filth and showed signs of malnutrition.
  — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 27 Feb. 2020
• It’s a powerful robot pool cleaner that scrubs all the filth off of your pool floor.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 30 June 2021
• They were often attached to public baths, whose water was used to flush down the filth.
  — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
• Phillips’ throat burned from inhaling smoke, and he was covered in filth.
  — Shannon Heffernan and Weihua Li, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• This is not the first time North Korea has sent filth balloons to their southern neighbors -- the regime did the same back in 2016 in response to action taken by civic groups performing the same kinds of stunts.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 29 May 2024
• In the stifling summer heat, the stench and filth that envelope us are an inevitable reality of war – just as familiar as the pangs of hunger and the distant sounds of bombing.
  — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024