How to Use gritty in a Sentence

gritty

adjective

• He gave us all of the gritty details of his divorce.
• The book describes the gritty realities of life on the streets.
• I admire her gritty determination to succeed.
• While not possessing the strength of the gods, Stone is still a badass and isn’t afraid to get gritty.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• Then, with Fisher watching in the stands, the Aztecs got gritty.
  — John Marshall, ajc, 2 Apr. 2023
• The gritty cop drama has a car chase hailed as one of the best ever put on film.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 7 Aug. 2023
• The atmosphere of the restaurant is gritty and a bit goth-punk.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• Her gritty and raw style of play has carried her to this point.
  — Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
• Take Earth 42, where the world was heavy and gritty with a noir aesthetic.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• At home, the hunt for mosaics has sent Mr. Latrasse, 43, along medieval streets and to the city’s gritty edges.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
• The Heat were, as coach Erik Spoelstra promised, a gritty, tenacious bunch.
  — Time, 13 June 2023
• The film is gritty but it’s still got the heart of a traditional romcom.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• The gritty Heat led for most of the game, but the Nuggets fought back in the third quarter and only trailed 71-70 entering the fourth quarter.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• To round out the top 10, Utah — which for about 58 minutes played the part of many West Coast teams who head east — mounted the grittiest win of the week.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• The stakes of your survival, in their modern, gritty detail.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2023
• This team all year has been gritty and contended with almost any team in the NFL.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• Time takes some of the edge off what was, for many, a gritty period of creativity against the odds.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2023
• On the fringes, slash-and-burn farming has scarred the hillsides, sending red dust and gritty sand over the landscape when the dry-season winds blow.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
• The comparisons between the gritty Puka Nacua and the out-of-nowhere Cooper Kupp are inevitable and valid.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Gunn goes for a gritty, dim look to give the film the air of authentic social realism.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Now, word of Pittsburgh’s gritty-meets-quirky charm is spreading.
  — Richelle Szypulski, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• Two freeways cut the neighborhood off from the Fremont Street tourism area, and even the air was gritty from the pollution.
  — Dan Hernandez, Longreads, 28 Feb. 2023
• Some gritty offense and second-chance points have kept this one close in the second quarter.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• The book is by Adam Rapp, a prolific playwright with a gritty, offbeat style.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• The Panthers realized that style doesn’t win tough, gritty games.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
• The gritty forechecker should be able to turn that into more than last year's one-year, $3 million contract.
  — Mike Brehm, USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• There was no one grittier, tougher, or more willing to sacrifice his body and well-being to the cause.
  — Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
• Quinn’s Lighthouse has been a fixture on a gritty part of the Oakland Estuary since 1984.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Dense and gritty, this little cornbread didn’t check many boxes for our testers.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023
• Kentucky's John Calipari credited the gritty win, in part, to taking a page from his past.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024