dross

Example Sentences

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Last time around, when Gerrard took over from the hapless Pedro Caixinha, he could throw out the dross and start again, but it cost a lot of cash and it plunged Rangers into financial challenges.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025

But to appreciate the treasure it becomes, you have to understand the dross from which it came.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023

“The dross of everyday life is very, very powerful and very strong. So you need to protect your special relationship with your music.”

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023

He will target the dross that inevitably accumulates in any large firm — the business practices that don’t make sense, the operations that don’t make money, and the workers who don’t make a good fit.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2022

I fancied that a malevolent Rumpelstiltskin crept into my room at night and undid my best work, turning the gold of my efforts into pathetic dross on a wheel perversely spinning backward.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly