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Meanings of dregs in English

Catalan
pòsit

Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.

pòsit
Usage of dregs in English
1
This is not the time to drain the cup to the dregs.
The Home and the World
2
But I have been in a sponging-house, and tasted the lowest dregs.
Richard Carvel — Volume 07
3
He headed for the roof on the last dregs of his power.
Iron Man
4
The dregs of sleep began to clear, and the walls seemed displaced.
The Valley of Horses
5
The Governor dropped his cigarette end into the dregs of his coffee.
Merton of the Movies
6
His chosen companions were flatterers sprung from the dregs of the people.
Ten Great Events in History
7
Truly Dinah drank the cup of bitterness to the dregs that night.
Greatheart
8
That exhilaration does not froth away, leaving bitter dregs in the cup.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter...
9
The last dregs of us that remain after so many Forerunner victories?
Halo Primordium
10
They have drunk wine sweet and sour and have swallowed the dregs.
Tales of Chinatown
11
Yet Pon-lor did not think that these dregs and misfits -bandits!
Blood and Bone
12
I have lived too long, and the dregs of life are bitter.
Dawn
13
To be a mother is to drink the dregs of human misery.
The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel
14
The bowl of reparation had been emptied to its last atoning dregs.
Hidden Creek
15
Any meddling with that would have to be sifted to the dregs.
The Place Beyond the Winds
16
Everyone felt their country was now the dregs of the civilized world.
The sonderberg case
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