1.   But for Sharif, life in the gritty city neighboring El Paso would be more Eden than exile, at least at first.

2.   In the last two years, five prostitutes have been found slain in out-of-the-way spots in this gritty industrial city.

3.   It was supposed to have been the impetus to transform this gritty blue-collar city into the entertainment mecca of the Midwest.

4.   Ragweeds grow naturally from coast to coast, adapting both to bucolic country meadows and to gritty city environments.

5.   The bathhouse belongs to the Chicago of memory, a gritty city of stockyards and new immigrants.

6.   The county has a gritty little city, Troy, and some gracious suburbs.

7.   The surrounding farms have given way to a gritty industrial city.

8.   There have been tensions at the universities, above all in Casablanca, a gritty industrial city.

9.   When members of the Boston Jewish community first proposed opening two modern health clinics in this gritty Ukrainian industrial city, municipal authorities here were suspicious.

10.   Country folks with urban roots, like the Brooklyn-native Zachai, depend on it for a breath of gritty city air.