How to Use dreg in a Sentence

dreg

noun

• They were considered the lowest of the low, the dregs of the world.
  — Detroit Free Press, 30 Aug. 2017
• Far too often, the Pac-12 Network is left with the dregs.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• There are two glasses, one with a few dregs in it and the ghost of lipstick.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
• Thin it out even more and add rice to make soup. Pour the dregs over some vegetables off the grill.
  — Emily Horton, charlotteobserver, 5 Sep. 2017
• Nearly half of their win streak, in other words, has been against the dregs of the AL Central.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Yet the taste is pleasant, like the less-salty dregs of chicken noodle soup.
  — Kara Cutruzzula, Bon Appetit, 15 Mar. 2018
• What’s left behind there now are the dregs and gangs who drive constant streams of people north.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• Without an advantage, the Astros asked their bullpen dregs to keep the game close.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019
• He got promoted for a reason.’’ Many of those reasons can be found in the dregs of a lost season.
  — Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• So far, all the Nationals have been able to do to bolster that group is trawl the depths of the league and see if anything useful can be pulled from the dregs.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• The Detroit Pistons have played poorly against the dregs of the Eastern Conference.
  — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2019
• One turns into 25, a bowl of dip becomes dregs to be excavated for flavor with the last crumbly few shards in the bag.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• This is a wintry beer, meant to warm you up during the dregs of January and February.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2020
• A great punch is unfortunately a time bomb: At a certain point, the punch will taste like the watery dregs of a cocktail.
  — Matthew Sedacca, GQ, 15 Aug. 2017
• Getty Images Close to two months after the 2019 Met Gala, the last dregs of drama are still seeping out of fashion’s most famous ball.
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 26 June 2019
• The Panthers went more than two months without a slipup against a bad team, feasting on the dregs of the Eastern Conference to climb up the standings and join the playoff picture.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Yes, every game counts and their division opponents get to play those same woeful clubs, but the fact is the Brewers fattened their record against the dregs of the big leagues.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2018
• But January and February promise little more than the dregs that didn't make the cut the previous year.
  — Stephanie Merry, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Navigator Cameron introduces us to a wide lot of characters, from the prigs of the paneled staterooms to the dregs of the raging furnace room.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
• Over the past five years, the company has acquired the dregs of the dot-com economy that Facebook and others eviscerated.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2019
• Erasing kids from the elements of play drains all the potential magic from this show, leaving us with mere Peter Pan dregs.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2020
• He was puzzled by the fact that crystals derived from the dregs of wine twisted light in a specific direction, but the same crystal synthesized in the lab did not.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
• The employees open up the bags and pull the dregs out with their bare hands, separating the bubble tea, watermelon slices and expired tofu.
  — Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• Weinstein Company For the cinematic dregs of late August, the earnest and quirky Leap! is charmingly en pointe.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2017
• Despite those new expenses, Florida's budget has rebounded from the dregs of the recession a decade ago.
  — Mary Ellen Klas, miamiherald, 4 May 2018
• The Siesta’s parade of color and flavor comes from its secondary ingredients: Fresh lime and grapefruit juice, all acid and bright fruit, usher the dregs of winter right out onto the back patio.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 2 May 2018
• And yet, the shipping economy remains a lifeline, a symbol both of Haiti’s reliance on the dregs of global capitalism and of the power of remittances to reach deep into the Haitian countryside.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• In addition to the homicidal houseplant, the show features a sadistic dentist who brutally abuses his terrified girlfriend, and the whole thing is set among the dregs of society on Skid Row.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
• The finest arabica beans from Colombia’s emerald hills were mostly exported, leaving domestic coffee lovers to drink the proverbial dregs.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
• Because of the siege by intellectuals (never mind the dregs) on Jewish sovereignty and liberty and independence.
  — David Kipen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2020

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