(1) This time, the main concern was a significant ash plume carrying gritty pulverized rock and silica that could damage aircraft engines and the surfaces of cars and homes.

(2) The rough stones jutting out from the gritty mud walls appeal to my visual and tactile senses.

(3) Shadow areas often take on a gritty or rough textured appearance.

(4) These images have none of the airbrushed niceties of much modern photography, and you pay for the gritty realism.

(5) If and when it comes to pass, then Carlow could become a very serious contender, given the gritty way they have played against several teams with full-timers on board.

(6) The reason for India's good performance in the last couple of years was due to the solid performance of this gritty batsman.

(7) But my appetite was whetted and I craved more gritty details.

(8) The same gritty determination holds true when it comes to answering a physical challenge.

(9) Everywhere there was desolation - trees black and bare-limbed and the ground covered with gritty black ash.

(10) By the next day, between a quarter and an eighth-inch of gritty , gray volcanic debris covered everything.

(11) The stuff isn't harmful in any way; it just tastes a little gritty and sticks to your teeth.

(12) John produced a gritty performance just to finish, when others were falling about him.

(13) He's polite, asking permission to smoke; but still, there seems something very gritty and determined about him these days.

(14) He felt like hell when he came back to consciousness, bruised and covered in gritty sand.

(15) When the hard anthracite coal is mined the very fine, gritty material is called culm.

(16) Shooting the entire series on location in Baltimore was an essential part of this rough, gritty feel.

(17) Blood is running freely from his nose and an open wound on his head, and he's covered in gritty , grey dust.

(18) Feeling incredibly dirty and gritty , from all the dirt that she was covered under from her ride, Ari ran a bath for herself and scrubbed herself clean.

(19) His story is partly one of gritty determination, perfectionism and hard work.

(20) This form of gritty realist cinema relies upon constant improvisation.

(21) England's qualification will rely on some gritty away performances and I feel they may be few and far between.

(22) I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand.

(23) Of modern Australian batsmen that I have seen, the best was Chappell, who had great power and elegance, plus gritty determination when he needed it.

(24) With this film, Loach digresses from his usual gritty themes of social realism to pose questions of culture, race and religion.

(25) Right from the beginning of the pilot, what I liked about it was its gritty realism.

(26) It has that gritty realism that small budget English films are becoming known for, but plenty of lighter moments to balance the gloom.

(27) This initial sequence of violence and sex is, utterly disturbing, gritty realism, set against a wider social violence.

(28) Fill with stones until three-quarters full then top up with gravel and a layer of very gritty compost on top, about 3in deep.

(29) I kick up dust for those behind me and the gritty gravel sandpapers their wounds.

(30) He outmanoeuvred and overpowered the gritty Australian to race through the opening two sets, hitting the corners of the court at will with his heavy groundstrokes.