| 1. | I sat in the dingy box absolutely enthralled. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | For five minutes, Tommy sat on the bed in the dingy room next door. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | A woman's voice behind the dingy curtain. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dog-kennel, vowing I hated a good book. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 5. | They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | I, in my turn, scrutinised the paper but saw nothing on it save a few dingy stains of paint where I had tried the tint in my pencil. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | This conversation had occurred while our cab had been threading its way through a long succession of dingy streets and dreary by-ways. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | Sir James echoed her words as he folded the paper carefully and put it away in his pocket-book, then he looked curiously round the dingy room. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 9. | To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |