Which preposition to use with dingy
The grand old palace in the Toledo was hers, she was told, but it was let for a term of years to the municipality and was filled with public offices; the marble staircases were black and dingy with the passing of many feet that tracked in the mud in winter and the filthy dust of Naples in summer.
At the end is a high seat and desk for the person presiding, and an enclosure and a table for officials below him; and round the rest of the dingy walls run benches fixed to the wall, dingy as the walls themselves.
The afternoon was wet and the houses looked dingier than usual; dirty, inconvenient little places most of them, with a few cheap gimcracks making a brave show as near the window as possible.
"It was the dingy of the Trinidad, gentlemen; you can still read her name.
" A "scooter," it may be explained, is an ice-boat peculiar to the Great South Baya sort of modified dingy on runners.
One day the black nurse got out of the dingy for a moment, when the baby was asleep, leavin' him alone with it.
The little room in Bancroft Hall seemed especially small and dingy to the returning midshipmen.
He slipped out of the dingy into the water without a splash, and struck out for the breakers.