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
“Heart Eyes” has two goals: satirize romantic comedies and squeeze the dregs from slasher clichés.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025
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
Many fishermen feel they're being left the dregs once the seas have been divided up by other industries.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
I drained that beaker to the dregs with great satisfaction.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.