Examples include a garden tool, a dirty nail, or a piece of glass that has been buried in the dirt.

It looked like a dirty nail driven deep into white flesh.

For example, the bacteria can thrive in a puncture wound from a dirty nail.

Where there had been fingers and broken, dirty nails, there were claws of gold.

As it fell, its dirty nail dug a deep in the down Danica's calf.

No one would want to look at a corpse with dirty nails, David supposed.

She peered into his hand and a dirty nail traced the lines of it, tickling.

The long, dirty nails scratched twice more, then fell away.

His hands were clever despite the dirty nails.

She touched the roughly callused palms, the dirty broken nails.