How to Use filth in a Sentence

filth

noun
  • He emerged from the cellar covered in filth.
  • If the job is to get very rich spewing racist filth, then one is a racist.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2019
  • This friend kept birds, and the birds are suffering in the filth too.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 12 May 2017
  • Then again, the transcript of his halftime show was pure raunch and filth.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • No one ever did, Nepal said, and so they were forced to live in filth.
    — Zeena Saifi and Becky Anderson, CNN, 9 July 2021
  • Give the air filter a look, too, and replace that if it's packed with filth.
    — Matt Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
  • But Wachter had a hunch that a great painting lay beneath the filth.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2025
  • Without a way to remove sewage from their homes, people live in filth.
    — Joumana Khatib, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The other is an agent of Satan, awash in filth and blood and greed and sin.
    — Sarah Posner, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Phillips’ throat burned from inhaling smoke, and he was covered in filth.
    — Shannon Heffernan and Weihua Li, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The dogs, intrigued by the entrails, give themselves a good roll in the filth.
    — Nathaniel Adams, Chron, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Hollywood’s ghosts fill Lynch’s work, and so does its muck and its filth.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The streets teem with filth, steam, darkness and crowds of people with hollow stares.
    — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The snow pile in the junk lot is extremely dark and covered in filth and debris.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Bright flames in the fireplace behind her remind us where that filth deserves to go.
    — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
  • They were often attached to public baths, whose water was used to flush down the filth.
    — Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Still, the linoleum tiles in the kitchen have long since disappeared under layers of filth.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • So settle in for some real filth from the Pope of Trash, and queue up the marathon.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Global brand, village filth, one syntax.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The linemen saved the pups, who had been covered in filth and showed signs of malnutrition.
    — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Javadi isn’t the only one who can read her co-workers for absolute filth.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Netflix’s The Chair may also take the prize for reading academia to its purest filth.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But the light returns, and there’s nothing like spring light to display the winter filth on the windows.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The stench is meant to evoke filth, gangrene and the barnyard, Gibbons Backus said.
    — Jonathan Hunley, Washington Post, 28 May 2017
  • The young boy was bedridden, unable to speak and living in filth, according to the report.
    — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026
  • Little filth flies such as drain flies breed in sludge and decaying matter that can build up in drain pipes, says Oi.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 June 2026
  • Little filth flies such as drain flies breed in sludge and decaying matter that can build up in drain pipes, says Oi.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Every one of those filth should have been locked up and charged by the US Attorney up there.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 25 Mar. 2017
  • Ariana spends much of Part 3 of the reunion reading Raquel for filth.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • Photos taken by the ACLU showed men sleeping on floors amid filth and garbage.
    — Keri Blakingerstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023

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