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Alaa reminded a boy named Usaid to shake the sand from his sandals before stepping onto the thin sheet spread across the dirt floor.
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Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
Cutter’s father Tom was even born on the dirt floor of the Osuna adobe, the historic landmark preserved by the Rancho Santa Fe Association.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Used for Sunday mass, the building itself was a long, rectangular room with a dirt floor, no ceiling and wooden shutters instead of glass windows.
—James Kassaga Arinaitwe, NPR, 29 Aug. 2025
More folks donning cowboy boots and hats than a normal night in Nashville gathered on the makeshift dirt floor at Bridgestone Arena to see their queen — Reba McEntire — close out night-one of Nashville's first Music City Rodeo.
—Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The rare jadeite mosaic mask, as it was discovered, resting within the tomb's dirt floor at Caracol.
—Kerry Breen
july 10, CBS News, 10 July 2025
With rodeo dust still in the air, the stage covered part of the thick dirt floor, where cowboys had wrapped up competition on Day 2 of the Music City Rodeo, less than an hour ago.
—Pam Windsor, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
On the wide stage of the Vivian Beaumont, two of the Viewpoints, spatial relationship and shape, find particularly striking expression: As Floyd Collins begins, Landau arranges her ensemble in silhouette across an empty expanse of dirt floor, a soaring blank canvas of firmament behind them.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Pottery fragments, including the top half of a massive ceramic vessel, lay scattered across the dirt floor.
—Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
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Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
Cutter’s father Tom was even born on the dirt floor of the Osuna adobe, the historic landmark preserved by the Rancho Santa Fe Association.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Used for Sunday mass, the building itself was a long, rectangular room with a dirt floor, no ceiling and wooden shutters instead of glass windows.
—James Kassaga Arinaitwe, NPR, 29 Aug. 2025
More folks donning cowboy boots and hats than a normal night in Nashville gathered on the makeshift dirt floor at Bridgestone Arena to see their queen — Reba McEntire — close out night-one of Nashville's first Music City Rodeo.
—Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The rare jadeite mosaic mask, as it was discovered, resting within the tomb's dirt floor at Caracol.
—Kerry Breen
july 10, CBS News, 10 July 2025
With rodeo dust still in the air, the stage covered part of the thick dirt floor, where cowboys had wrapped up competition on Day 2 of the Music City Rodeo, less than an hour ago.
—Pam Windsor, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
On the wide stage of the Vivian Beaumont, two of the Viewpoints, spatial relationship and shape, find particularly striking expression: As Floyd Collins begins, Landau arranges her ensemble in silhouette across an empty expanse of dirt floor, a soaring blank canvas of firmament behind them.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Pottery fragments, including the top half of a massive ceramic vessel, lay scattered across the dirt floor.
—Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Dirt floor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirt%20floor. Accessed 26 Sep. 2025.
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