Example sentences for: dredge

How can you use “dredge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 5 million to dredge Marina del Rey harbor, $600,000 to remove burros from the desert, $50,000 for a mural in Twentynine Palms, $100,000 to build an international trade center in Tulare County, and $50 million to reinforce levees on the lower Los Angeles River and relieve nearby residents of a federal mandate to buy flood insurance.

  • Some people have better memories than others, and we can admire those who, despite the extraordinary pressure of being under the klieg lights in a TV studio before an audience, are able to dredge up obscure information in response to quizmasters' questions.

  • The best I can describe the process for me is that it resembles noodling on a piano: I run rhythms and sentences--or maybe not even sentences, the shapes of sentences--across one another, trying out their sounds, and sometimes I get a tune-like combination of sound and syntax that makes me want to go on, extend and refine it, as it comes to dredge sustenance from the great pool of feelings and ideas that accumulates in a life.

  • Thurmond is so old that it's considered bad form to criticize his sorry record or dredge up his racist past.

  • Thanks to television news culture, the neighbors have undoubtedly memorized what neighbors are supposed to say, (nice guy, kept to himself) and dredge that from the subconscious once they hear the knock.


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