How to Use in the dirt in a Sentence

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• Breeze lives in the extremes: among the worms in the dirt, amidst the rainbows in the sky.
  — Madelyn Dawson, SPIN, 9 July 2024
• Then there’s having to come out of routes from a three-point stance with a hand in the dirt.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2022
• Young children, dusty after two days in the camp, played in the dirt.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• To be able to throw a change-up that might go in the dirt with a runner on third — amazing.
  — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• Just a warning, though, riding around in the dirt and mud does reduce the range to 68 miles.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
• The Maxxis Recon tires have good traction in the dirt but thick mud can clog the knobbies.
  — William Roberson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The remains of three of those men were later found in the dirt near the local cemetery.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
• The bull steamrolls forward, and Catalino lands in the dirt in a roll and jumps to his feet.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• The rifle, which has a scope, is in view a few feet from where Sandoval is lying in the dirt.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• It’s spliced with footage of them in the forest, laying among the foliage, digging their hands in the dirt.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Except the throw was off, the ball bouncing in the dirt ahead of Walsh and deflecting off his glove.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
• But digging in the dirt was just the beginning of their journey.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
• Tire marks were imprinted in the dirt on the front edge of the lawn where the car had broken through the fence before hitting the house.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• Jimmy then shared Ryan's image of the Ken doll in the dirt, the shot evoking the eeriness of a crime-scene photo.
  — Justine Browning, EW.com, 22 July 2022
• The boy drew up his own plays, scrawling one in the dirt during his first season playing the game.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Dogs who play outside in the dirt and mud are going to need to be bathed more often than dogs who don’t.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
• This place reminded me of a simpler time—when children played in the dirt with sticks and rocks.
  — Sue D. Gelber, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
• Springer thrives on catching their 94-mph fastballs or curveballs in the dirt.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2024
• The fire was so hot that melted remains of the victims’ black SUV are embedded in the dirt.
  — Nina Burleigh, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024
• Their weary bodies leaned sideways as Lopez-Padilla drove over dips in the dirt road.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• Then with the bases loaded, Díaz struck out Mets pinch-hitter Luis Guillorme on a slider in the dirt.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
• Báez struck out swinging on a pitch in the dirt and Jeimer Candelario flied out to shallow left field.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2022
• More than a decade later, a rancher found this end cap from one of Skylab’s oxygen tanks in the dirt.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
• Both throws to first baseman Kole Calhoun were in the dirt, and Calhoun later said both balls should have been caught to end the game.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
• Crow-Armstrong’s attempt to take second on a ball in the dirt in was a gamble that backfired.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Lines used for collecting oil in preparation for sale lay in the dirt.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2024
• In the ensuing at-bat, Green struck out Brooke Blakeslee but the pitch in the dirt was dropped, necessitating a throw to first to get the out.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2023
• Kelce got the chance to throw out the first pitch after spiking one in the dirt before a game played by his hometown Cleveland Guardians.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2024
• The final weekend of Oregon’s spring break features a session of digging in the dirt in Salem.
  — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2023
• Chickens have their own coop but are usually busy roaming the grounds, scratching in the dirt beneath old Packards and flatbed Fords.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024