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Meanings of soiling in English
Portuguese
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sollament Synonyms
Examples for "dirtying"
Examples for "dirtying"
1
It is unfortunate that life has a way of dirtying the glass.
2
Anna wore muslin gloves to prevent the newsprint from dirtying her fingers.
3
But I'm not going to have cowards like you dirtying my deck-planks.
4
In the kitchen it's good for a quick sip without dirtying a glass.
5
And believe me, I don't want it dirtying up this Dominion.
1
That love knew no soilure in the passage of the years.
2
The delicate "baby blue" attracted him by its perishability, its suggestion of impossible refinements beyond the soilure and dust of his own grimy circumstances.
Usage of soiling in English
1
It exists everywhere in legions; crowding, soiling everything, like flies in summer.
2
He never runs for office-he leaves that risky, soiling task to underlings.
3
Wounded in three places, blood was soiling his linen and his clothes.
4
Not just because, of fingerprints now, but from fear of soiling himself.
5
Small ones, you think, but we will depend almost entirely upon soiling.
6
I don't think it's worth while soiling a clean piece of rope.
7
Or is that how your mother is, soiling herself in a diaper?
8
Her face was contorted in agony, dark blood stains soiling her dress.
9
The method of supplying the fowls with green food is entirely by soiling.
10
Egyptian clover in all its varieties is pre-eminently a soiling plant.
11
But the period is short during which it furnishes soiling food.
12
Children have irregular bowel motions, colicky abdominal pain, and frequent soiling.
13
The laundry was separated in piles according to colour and soiling.
14
Kale is one of the very best crops for soiling purposes.
15
It struck Miss Starr on the back, soiling her pretty dress.
16
Only the fortunate few can make money without soiling their hands.
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Soiling through the time
Soiling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common