crud

Example Sentences

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It is not just a renovation after the fire, but a complete overhaul including removing decades of crud and soot built up since the last restoration.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

Griswold was less inclined to blame cars and drivers than car manufacturers, who had the technology, he said, to control tailpipe crud, and there were patent records from 1909 to prove it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 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

"It drained the crud out of some people. They just said, 'I'm done with it,'" she said.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2023

Painfully, I pick, pinch, and pull the crud off of my lashes, but it is so thick that I have little success.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung