dredge

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Recent Examples of dredge It can also be used as a breading or dredge for frying. Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2025 Bastianich’s tips include picking a firm, fresh eggplant, cutting it in thick slices, dredging them in flour and panfrying before draining, cooling, rolling, nestling in the sauce and baking until bubbly. The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025 The most common type of novel, though, is the one that’s mundanely descriptive of Life During the Pandemic—stories that feel as if they’ve been dredged from the author’s memories of it. Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025 Place flour in a shallow dish; dredge chicken lightly in flour, shaking off excess. Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dredge
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Verb
  • Elsewhere, investigators searched the house, the barn and even the pond.
    Susan Mallie, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Investigators are searching for the suspect, described as a man in his 20s or 30s wearing all black and black headphones.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Annie set has 12 chairs, each designed to look like something that could literally rake through a head of hair.
    Nora Taylor, Curbed, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The cemetery was only sporadically maintained by its caretaker, and raking the long grass gave me the eerie feeling of running my fingers through a child’s hair.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Nader has dismissed her insight completely, triggering a grimy investigation montage of exercise, combing through files, thinking while brooding in the company of coffee, cigarettes, and an old car door propped up on a chain-link fence for target practice.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Even the best recruiters can only comb through so many resumes before their vision begins to blur, upping the risk of missing out on the ideal hire.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Sporting found some moments of control in the second half and finally got a foothold in the game again.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Those few minutes sent students scrambling for cover and barricading themselves around campus until authorities found them.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Off the coast of Sicily, Italy, a scuba diver scanned the seafloor for anything that looked man-made or generally just interesting.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Upon arrival, travelers simply scan a QR code and start their vacation faster.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Dredge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dredge. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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