How to Use dreg in a Sentence

dreg

noun
  • There are two glasses, one with a few dregs in it and the ghost of lipstick.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • They were considered the lowest of the low, the dregs of the world.
    — Detroit Free Press, 30 Aug. 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
  • January used to be the time of year in which studios dumped their unloved dregs in theaters.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The Nazis were the dregs of humanity.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 25 May 2026
  • Without an advantage, the Astros asked their bullpen dregs to keep the game close.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2019
  • This isn’t a collection of anonymous starters playing for teams projected to be among the dregs of the league.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In the dregs of the age of JFJ, absolutely.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Last season, they were expected to be among the dregs of the NHL, a sure-fire lottery pick.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • In other words, many of our decisions are already made, on some level, in the lower dregs of the soup of consciousness.
    — Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Planets form from the disk of gas and dust that surrounds a newborn star, and moons are thought to typically emerge from the dregs left over from a planet’s birth.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • There’s a direct line of descent from the naturalistic theatre which leads you straight down to the dregs of bad theatre, bad thinking, and bad feeling.
    — Christine Baranski, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Just as fruit and meats left untouched began to rot and putrefy, so did dregs and undigested material inside the body turn poisonous if not expelled.
    — Meg Leja, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2023
  • 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 Detroit Pistons have played poorly against the dregs of the Eastern Conference.
    — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Just as a robust porter leaves foamy dregs at the bottom of a pint glass, IndyStar's Beer Bracket is coming to an end.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This butter colorway keeps things light-hearted, even in the dregs of winter, and the colorway’s additional discount makes for a special treat at checkout.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 1 Dec. 2025
  • This butter colorway keeps things light-hearted, even in the dregs of winter, and the colorway’s additional discount makes for a special treat at checkout.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 30 Nov. 2025
  • This butter colorway keeps things light-hearted, even in the dregs of winter, and the colorway’s additional discount makes for a special treat at checkout.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 28 Nov. 2025
  • 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

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