Example sentences for: dredge

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Our family get-togethers seem more like a meeting of pathologists, each trying to dredge up more horrific experiences.

  • Bennett, who had spent the weekend on Meet the Press and CNN's Late Edition making veiled and not-so-veiled threats to dredge up Paula Jones' sexual history (threats from which he backed off later in the week), was pushing a counterproductive tactic even further.


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