dregs

Example Sentences

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The next time you finish a bottle of red wine, leave it on the counter with dregs in the bottom to help trap gnats.

From Salon

In 2016, Dr. Bonaros watched nonnative European starlings and English sparrows go after the dregs of Brood V, also disappearing from Long Island.

From New York Times

She waits till you return to drown in the coughed-up dregs of her own lungs.

From New York Times

Only Finland and Sweden have settled on permanent repositories for the dregs of their atomic energy programs.

From New York Times

Last January, trying to divine the future in the blood-red wine dregs at the bottom of my glass, I wrote of oversupply and weak demand pressuring independent grape growers and small family wineries.

From Washington Post