crud

Example Sentences

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Here again, the fire offered an opportunity to rediscover the glories that lay beneath decades of crud and soot.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

No one wants to imagine giant cloud filled with plastic raining crud water all over them.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023

“I suspect the internet is going to be filled with crud just all over the place,” Chris Albon told me.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023

Natural gas is a fossil fuel, just like the oil that’s refined into gasoline, and burning it can put out some of the same nasty, not-nice-for-humans crud.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2023

By seven that morning it was already in the eighties, and our bangs stuck to our foreheads, our faces red and dented with pillow marks, gray crud in the corners of our eyes.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth