Example sentences for: dregs

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

  • Russia's military is a lumpen -army, the dregs of dregs.

  • A term of opprobrium, the word came from the Southerners' perception that the newcomers represented the dregs of society, seeking nothing but easy political gain.

  • He exaggerated and lied, but he was there --he befriended weirdos and freaks, made common cause with the dregs of society, stirred trouble, listened.

  • (I hadn't grasped how square and stolid the framing was until last night, when, while filming a concert by the pathetic dregs of a real '70s band, the camera tilted sardonically, just for an instant.)

  • I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.


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