How to Use dredge up in a Sentence

dredge up

verb
  • Peg's death has dredged up those memories.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Stan got to be quite expert at dredging up large walleyes from a couple of deep holes.
    — Marc Terziev, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026
  • Margo’s current custody predicament dredges up old wounds for both of her parents.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • The spray will move some of the loose soil dredged up by the disks of the slit-seeder back into the slits, thereby covering the seed.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 19 Feb. 2026
  • In the process of watering the seed in, some of the loose soil dredged up by the disks falls back into the slits, covering the seed.
    — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 19 Feb. 2026
  • As the unlikely duo sets out on the run, old memories blur with the present, dredging up dark secrets from his past.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026
  • No need to watch the dreadful first film to prepare (although clips are, of course, easy to dredge up on YouTube).
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Yet that 1993 comment would be dredged up regularly.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2026
  • At one point, Jonah encourages Morgan to hurl eggs at a piece of art that dredges up painful memories.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Mattresses and questionably clean bedding were dredged up, dusty couches cleared of detritus.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Those suits not only dredged up dark secrets dating back years but also laid the foundation for their federal criminal case.
    — Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Those suits not only dredged up dark secrets dating back years but also laid the foundation for their federal criminal case.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But as the battle to save Ransom wages on, a mysterious cowboy drifts into town, dredging up secrets from the past.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
  • With net in hand, the future microbial geochemist dredged up seaweed and mud squirming with snails, crab larvae and other small invertebrates.
    — Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Having to dredge up memories of some extremely horrific things, starting with child abuse and a violation at the age of 5.
    — Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But Martin fears the publicity that Ben’s bid would bring, dredging up the secrets of their past with tragic consequences.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Such a controversial move would dredge up long-simmering historical grievances.
    — Lauren Carasik, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2017
  • But this film also revived a wound that the city of Salem would have preferred to cover over entirely, dredging up everything about the Rideouts all over again.
    — Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The reorganization plan included a long list of causes of action the trust could look into, which could dredge up more information about how everything went wrong at the company.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
  • But colleagues’ cattiness and her own insecurity dredge up traumatic memories and send her spiralling into bulimia.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • The parlour is decked out with lush furniture, including velvet chairs and rich leather sofas, while an otherworldly-looking creature guards the aquarium tank that appears as though it was just dredged up from the bottom of the sea.
    — Emily Strohm, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
  • In the wake of the Kirk assassination, Elon Musk took to his X to call for Piker’s cancellation, dredging up past comments that walked up to the line.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Battling the debilitating symptoms of a late-stage brain tumor, his grasp on reality becomes increasingly fragile, and as the unlikely duo sets out on the run, old memories blur with the present, dredging up dark secrets from his past.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Currently, Americans are drinking less alcohol than ever—only 54 percent of people consume booze, a 90-year low—which dredges up quite a few problems for the wine industry at large.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Less than a mile away, the corps is planning to deepen and widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through the reef line and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of surrounding coral, according to federal scientists.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The country has already dredged up 70 percent of China's total 2,300 acres and, like China, has begun to add defensive structures, airfields and harbors at several features.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • It is written in an almost stream-of-consciousness style, rather like someone reluctantly dredging up their memories, with random thoughts interrupting the narrative, long sentences sometimes running to over a page, little punctuation, and peppered with Kobe dialect.
    — Ginny Tapley Takemori september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Unmoored from tradition and offering only vague, impressionistic lyrics, Granli’s quavering performances on Rosacea become Rorschach tests, ripe for free association with whatever images your psyche can dredge up.
    — H.d. Angel, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The case has dredged up memories from one the darkest chapters in LAPD history, while also sparking a debate within the department about about when officers should be disciplined for sharing or displaying images of divisive figures.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The storyline has been that Apple can’t shoot straight; the antipathy of the Apple-using/hating commentators runs so deep that the critics dredged up the canard that Apple’s done nothing since former CEO Steve Jobs died.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026

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