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’s funny how this moment is bringing up those little dregs of work that I still need to do in that area.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

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

When August rolls around, we’re down to the dregs.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2023

Town work, the kind where you get money, instead of old cabbage leaves and the dregs of the beer.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz