How to Use dredge up in a Sentence
dredge up
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Each step dredged up the smell of dead and decaying things.
—Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
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The workers slept right here, among piles of excrement dredged up from the darkness.
—Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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Their beds were dredged up for the river gravel beneath their feet.
—John Fleischman, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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Idalia made landfall about 320 miles north of Fort Myers Beach, dredging up painful reminders of past storms.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
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The trial is expected to dredge up deeply personal episodes for Hunter Biden and the toll is took on the Biden family.
—Ryan Lucas, NPR, 3 June 2024
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Officials said some of the debris will likely be dredged up with bucket scoops.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
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But, shortly before the election, a new video of Osama bin Laden was released that dredged up memories of 9/11.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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Apple appears to have a bug that’s dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 15 May 2024
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The familiar scent dredged up those emotions as Smith sat in the hospital during the 10-hour surgery to relieve the pressure on Sloane’s brain.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
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Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer?
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
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Can Annie safely unravel the dark mystery at the heart of Castle Knoll, or will dredging up the past throw her into the path of a killer?
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
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In 1877, a French fisherman dredged up a bronze ram, decorated with Medusa’s infamous snake hair, and sent it to a foundry to melt down.
—Laura Trethewey, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
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The 27-year-old said the fire, regardless of the motive behind it, dredged up the hostility to the community that’s been documented in the news.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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The GOP has dredged up his old positions, including a 2017 vote against a bill aimed at defunding sanctuary cities, to present him as soft on the border.
—Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024
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However, the neighboring rancher (Adam Senn) doesn’t want to sell, and the trip home dredges up past drama with Lexie’s own family.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
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For Milligan, dredging up the details was a delicate task.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to dredge up my own childhood memory.
—Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
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This was, at least, the consensus until, in recent years, the financial rewards of dredging up the past became too substantial to resist.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2023
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Still others have accused her of dredging up the kind of stubborn, but baseless rumors that tend to circulate around most big city police departments.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
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To be like that fake Whitney Houston or fake Kurt Cobain, dredging up all your traumas for an overbearing interviewer.
—Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
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Given enough information, a Suetonius of the inner life could dredge up the motives of a dead person or a complete stranger, then trace their consequences in public life.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
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Worse, Tom offers kindness to Shiv, dredging up their old history, and getting absolutely nowhere for it.
—Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
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The specter of an unstable polar vortex still hang over us, dredging up miserable memories of winters past.
—David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2024
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Why must every group have a prodigal troublemaker whose return dredges up these old memories?
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 16 May 2024
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The descendants of the old court cooks from Rampur have been dredged up from some village and brought to prepare the dinner in giant cauldrons, using a kilo of ghee for each guest as their rule of thumb, and cooking for twice as many as were invited.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
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In a stunning revelation last month that dredged up an embarrassing chapter in his father's life, Harry blamed his delay in bringing suit, in part, on his family.
—Brian Melley, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
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Oddly enough, treating people like people might actually dredge up that most priceless ore: Empathy.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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While we are certainly fascinated with celebrity scandals, experts point out that this case in particular dredges up more than idle, eyebrow-raising gossip.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024
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Clips of misogynistic interviewers berating the women have been dredged up and posted to horrified young audiences on TikTok.
—Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023
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But the findings dredge up ethical questions over the use of human remains without consent, especially among marginalized communities.
—Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
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