dredge
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of US agribusiness giant Cargill, angered over the dredging and development of Amazonian rivers for grain exports.
From Barron's
She looked like something that had been dredged out of the canal.
From Literature
A World War Two bomb dredged from the water in Exmouth is to be disposed of at sea on Friday morning.
From BBC
Several Louisiana parishes have sued oil companies in state court, alleging that decades of drilling, dredging and refining damaged the coastal zone and violated state environmental rules.
“And then making the movie dredged it all up again.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
