scourings

Example Sentences

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Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when they had scoured the waterfront boardinghouses, Prince shook his head over their scourings.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

They were generally commanded by ruffians, and manned with desperadoes of all nations—the scourings of the French galleys.

From Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler by Kingston, William Henry Giles

As if by magic the stress of the war wrung out the rinsings and the scourings and left the fabric clean.

From Joy in the Morning by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman

They were washed-down, melted, stripped of earth and vegetation; and down from their flanks in a steep, even slope, lay the d�bris and scourings of centuries.

From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane