drudging

Example Sentences

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But if the new lines go through for 2026, they could pit long-serving older members of the Texas delegation against younger newcomers, drudging up existing tensions in the Democratic Party over age and seniority.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2025

So instead, I applied 3% hydrogen peroxide, then scrubbed with a nylon brush like Cinderella drudging for her evil relatives.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022

The defense tried to discredit Constand and the other women, attacking their credibility and drudging up their past misbehaviors.

From The Verge • Apr. 26, 2018

It’s the same old drudging, frustrating process, no more or less revealing than it’s been in the past—but more important now than ever.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2017

However breathless and hurried it made one's female relations in its upper reaches, and drudging in its lower, the very highest?

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von