Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.
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Examples for "grounds"
Examples for "grounds"
1Photo: 123RF State House said the pardon was based on compassionate grounds.
2The sea is also a shipping route and has major fishing grounds.
3The company has said the decision was made purely on business grounds.
4The allegations in both cases are not without grounds, legal experts say.
5The government said it would appeal against the ruling on security grounds.
1When the animals had drunk, he filled the water bag with the settlings.
2Then let the liquor run through a bolter, to sever the spice, stopping before any settlings come.
3Thrown down; settlings; coming from above.
4Actual "settlings" were the dregs of humanity.
5But for the slight concavities on the hilltop that marked shuttler settlings, there was little to indicate their previous presence.
1This is not the time to drain the cup to the dregs.
2But I have been in a sponging-house, and tasted the lowest dregs.
3He headed for the roof on the last dregs of his power.
4The dregs of sleep began to clear, and the walls seemed displaced.
5The Governor dropped his cigarette end into the dregs of his coffee.
6His chosen companions were flatterers sprung from the dregs of the people.
7Truly Dinah drank the cup of bitterness to the dregs that night.
8That exhilaration does not froth away, leaving bitter dregs in the cup.
9The last dregs of us that remain after so many Forerunner victories?
10They have drunk wine sweet and sour and have swallowed the dregs.
11Yet Pon-lor did not think that these dregs and misfits -bandits!
12I have lived too long, and the dregs of life are bitter.
13To be a mother is to drink the dregs of human misery.
14The bowl of reparation had been emptied to its last atoning dregs.
15Any meddling with that would have to be sifted to the dregs.
16Everyone felt their country was now the dregs of the civilized world.
Dregs per variant geogràfica