dregs

Example Sentences

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As she says, a noble use for the dregs of the nut bowl.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

It is not known whether this was one of the issues Sir Jim Ratcliffe was mulling over when the camera panned to him in the last dregs of United's latest damaging loss under Amorim's charge.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025

Models suggest that the last dregs of the magma ocean crystallized into dense minerals including ilmenite, a mineral containing titanium and iron.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

Contacts in the Ukrainian military arranged to have these dangerous dregs of combat made safe for artistic repurposing: materiel as material.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

Theon was staring down into the last dregs of his third tankard when Lady Barbrey Dustin swept into the hall and sent two of her sworn swords to bring him to her.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin