How to Use dredge up in a Sentence

dredge up

phrasal verb

• This can indicate a relationship that is constantly dredging up unseen energies, such as secrets, unrealized truths, and of course, love affairs.
  — Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 6 Sep. 2024
• Each step dredged up the smell of dead and decaying things.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• The workers slept right here, among piles of excrement dredged up from the darkness.
  — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Their beds were dredged up for the river gravel beneath their feet.
  — John Fleischman, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Idalia made landfall about 320 miles north of Fort Myers Beach, dredging up painful reminders of past storms.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Officials said some of the debris will likely be dredged up with bucket scoops.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Apple appears to have a bug that’s dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 15 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the fashion world, there's one passionate debate that's dredged up every few years: whether leopard print is a neutral.
  — Angela Law, refinery29.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• Have any research discoveries been made as a result of dredging up these slave ships?
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For Milligan, dredging up the details was a delicate task.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• Companies large and small dredge up sand from waterways and the ocean floor and transport it to wholesalers, construction firms and retailers.
  — David A. Taylor, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• Thank you for giving me the opportunity to dredge up my own childhood memory.
  — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• In my view, the letter-writer is just parroting what was immediately dredged up by right-wing media that many on the right turn to for their marching orders.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When the call came, Rossellini was incredulous, worried that returning to the company would dredge up all that history.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Throughout the picture, Shula and other girls are told not to dredge up the past, or do anything that could harm their extended family’s unity and stability.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 May 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024