How to Use dreck in a Sentence

dreck

noun
  • The movie was pure dreck.
  • And, man, there’s a lot of dreck.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • One of the newest weapons is the dreck left at the bottom of a wine press.
    — Jesse Newman, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
  • With so much good new music available, there’s no reason to consume anonymous dreck.
    — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • That tension between the public and the personal, between the dreck and the art, is the spine of the film.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Every era now heralded as golden was once pilloried as corny dreck.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
  • But that’s only one of many reasons that this B-movie dreck should have stayed underwater.
    — Katie Walsh, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
  • 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
  • Her potential to reimagine rap in her own image is too high to excuse these lapses into dreck.
    — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But right now, nearly every fleck of AI folly that’s risen to the top has been utter dreck.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Their five-on-four play looked dangerous, in contrast with the dreck Canucks fans have been served for so much of this season.
    — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Diamonds among the dreck Who knows what AI will do to and for music in the future.
    — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Give DiCaprio all the Oscars for making this dreck almost work.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Beaver fans remember all too often from previous days of defensive dreck.
    — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Worse still, the product the league put on the field for its Super Wildcard Weekend was pure dreck.
    — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • There was 25 minutes of great stuff, but it was surrounded by an additional 2 hours of dreck.
    — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 29 May 2024
  • 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
  • Offensive dreck, meanwhile, gets and stays published for as long as its commercially viable.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 man is committed to his sci-fi/fantasy sometimes video game adaptation dreck — and his wife — and one can’t help but be moved by devotion like that.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Sense-annihilating dreck has become a generational identity that these kids can claim as their own.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even if a viewer doesn’t understand the underlying ideology, the memes can lead to more, and more overt, neo-Nazi dreck.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This moody psychological horror film is more than just an apology for the dreck that was the second Exorcist movie.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This moody psychological horror film is more than just an apology for the dreck that was the second Exorcist movie.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The waste of talent, not to mention billions of studio dollars, on formulaic dreck is enough to frustrate all but the biggest superhero stans.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Besides needing scrubs to be comfortable and allow full range of movement, the fabrication must stand up to multiple washings, shed dreck and dirt.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025

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