How to Use sordid in a Sentence

sordid

adjective

• He shared the sordid details of his past.
• Yet Collins says the fun didn’t come from the sordid finds.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 5 June 2018
• Tracing the threads to the ghosts of SELA’s sordid past was easy.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The last straw came when Serra was getting in her car to head to work and slipped in one of the sordid mounds.
  — nola.com, 3 June 2019
• That is true even on days when Donald Trump makes the process look sordid.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• The Guardian has a run down of the somewhat sordid machinations.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2020
• And her role in this sordid case is about to take a dramatic turn.
  — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
• Everything about the story, of course, is the stuff of the most sordid fiction.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 Aug. 2019
• Who among us isn’t transfixed by a sordid true crime tale?
  — Jennifer Latson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Whistler does skip over the Swartz book’s more salacious and sordid details.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2021
• As the news cycles churned, the sordid details of Jackson’s death emerged.
  — Courtney E. Smith, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• The show also offered updates on the lives of the three people involved in one of the most sordid scandals of the '90s.
  — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
• The sordid story of a South Bronx apartment building ruled by a gang of crazed, junkie punks.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Apr. 2022
• Watch for my sordid senescent self to slink down a boulevard near you soon.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 15 July 2022
• In what passes for good news in the sordid mess, he is now confined to desk duty.
  — Paul Butler, Philly.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• Degas pulls aside the curtain on a sordid truth of that dazzling world.
  — Carol Strickland, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2020
• Hear the dish on the sordid and scandalous past of downtown and the historic Maple Park neighborhoods.
  — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2017
• Showalter takes too long to get to the couple’s decline, whizzing by the more sordid details.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2021
• Just a sordid story and a lack of integrity all around.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Of course, all of this is in line with Giuliani’s sordid history.
  — Photo: Tom Williams/cq-Roll Call/getty Images., refinery29.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• And despite the sordid events of last year, Smith said the city will continue to focus on the good aspects of the partnership.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• Guided by the tastes of critics and academics, the museums and galleries fill up with the ugly, the sordid, the cruel, the bilious, the strange.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• Of course, as with anything on the internet, there’s a sordid element to watch out for.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2023
• The search for Alfredo will reveal a sordid past fraught with greed, blackmail and a pile of gambling debts.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
• While the Fred and Gladys monikers have somewhat sad, not all royal nicknames come with such sordid stories.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2020
• The whole exchange is painful, from the bemused looks of those on-stage, to the audience rumbling as this whole sordid affair plays out.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2018
• The NRA's history with blacks is sordid from the beginning.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2017
• In the end the truth proved to be merely sordid and mundane, a story beneath even Adamson’s standards.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• The air was thick with the horrors of its sordid history and the resistance of our ancestors who once stood there.
  — Essence, 10 Oct. 2024
• The Islamic Republic’s sordid proxy war with the West may now be leaving it open to an all-out attack as Israel attempts to eliminate its enemies throughout the region.
  — Christopher De Bellaigue, The New York Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024