dregs

Example Sentences

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“Tow” might not be a knockout, but it’s far from the dregs of cinema.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

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

Many fishermen feel they're being left the dregs once the seas have been divided up by other industries.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

An old mayonnaise jar with a slit in the bottle cap glinted with the coppery dregs of a few pennies.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez