crud

Example Sentences

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Here again, the fire offered an opportunity to rediscover the glories that lay beneath decades of crud and soot.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

Meanwhile, we’ve got car-sized space crud smashing into Australia, and another hunk of SpaceX scrap cratering into a Washington farmer’s property.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2023

“I suspect the internet is going to be filled with crud just all over the place,” Chris Albon told me.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023

Natural gas is a fossil fuel, just like the oil that’s refined into gasoline, and burning it can put out some of the same nasty, not-nice-for-humans crud.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

My palms were still stained with a dark crud of ink I’d scrubbed from the machines’ crevices.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros