How to Use dreck in a Sentence

dreck

noun

• The movie was pure dreck.
• One of the newest weapons is the dreck left at the bottom of a wine press.
  — Jesse Newman, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
• And, sadly, most music writing is dreck — not here at SPIN!
  — An Unnamed Spin Editor, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2023
• Give DiCaprio all the Oscars for making this dreck almost work.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
• The movie is twenty minutes too long, and most of those minutes are consumed, near the end, by pyrotechnic dreck.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• This sub-Hallmark dreck made by a bunch of hacks that don’t deserve to be named is the first film out of Lohan’s Netflix deal and her first feature in three years.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
• But that’s only one of many reasons that this B-movie dreck should have stayed underwater.
  — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
• All the while, Gebert has remained active in hate groups, and his once part-time gig as a peddler of racist dreck has transformed itself into a full-time job.
  — Hannah Gais, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
• The locker room has had a lot of time to get to know Richardson, and after the pressure, disgust and dreck of the 2022 season, a fresh perspective is perfect for this Colts team.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2023
• Ambitious actors usually do dreck like this in order to be able to afford to make a movie like Black Swan.
  — Julie Miller, HWD, 10 Jan. 2017
• Liddell isn’t the first player to open his DMs on Twitter or Instagram and read the dreck which people can send behind the safety of a keyboard.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2021
• Some indisputably gifted actors just seem to turn on the voltage when they’re cast as villains in franchise dreck and figure that art is for the birds.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• Even a 42-34 victory at SMU looks good on the resume compared to the non-conference dreck Michigan plays, for example.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
• Sure, there’s a lot of dreck out there, but there’s also some really great writing, insightful and entertaining stuff that is easy to lose in the shuffle.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2023
• And yet what CNN’s audience is treated to is propagandized dreck.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 30 Aug. 2017
• There were attacks on a good friend and Bengals fan in Los Angeles, @commissioneryas, about the usual dreck women hear – not being real fans, just trying to attract guys.
  — The Enquirer, 18 Nov. 2021
• This moody psychological horror film is more than just an apology for the dreck that was the second Exorcist movie.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• Those pieces are irresistible because there is such affection for the dreck seen from the view of someone whose tastes have become more sophisticated.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• This greatly increases the odds of finding good bottles, because conscientious merchants have weeded out much of the dreck.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• So naturally when the geyser erupted in September, unleashing its usual blast of searing-hot water and air, a nasty wave of dreck followed.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2018
• Offensive dreck, meanwhile, gets and stays published for as long as its commercially viable.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
• Beaver fans remember all too often from previous days of defensive dreck.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2021
• The reason is that what looks like dreck at the beginning (check your Yiddish translation guide) can in a few months with a trainer, and a caring investor, morph into the equivalent of Jessica Chastain.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2023
• Fielding a strong defense after five seasons of dreck on that side of the ball could not elevate the team after the departure of quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Its allies fill the op-ed pages with similar dreck, catering to the audience for politically correct, left-wing clickbait.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 May 2021
• This behind-the-times approach to Hollywood’s latest dreck hoodwinks conservatives who haven’t kept up with the depravity.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Feb. 2023
• In the case of Pence, Simon & Schuster has paid $4 million for two books that will likely be the usual dreck of presidential aspirants, while the author cravenly glosses over the fact that his former boss incited a riot that nearly killed him.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2021
• The fact that basically anyone could design and sell hastily coded Atari 2600 games with no interference from or cooperation with Atari led to a game market flooded with shovelware and to clearance bins filled with unsellable dreck.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• Much of his work, then, centers on counterbalancing that deluge of dreck via boosterish content generation, whether blog posts on personal websites or sites like Medium.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 4 June 2022
• Ancient Apocalypse is positively quaint by comparison with the paranoid, slipshod dreck filling many cable channels.
  — Jason Colavito, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024