scourings

Example Sentences

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Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when they had scoured the waterfront boardinghouses, Prince shook his head over their scourings.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

The re-appearance of Greene and his army in North Carolina, heralded by the scourings of Lee and Pickens, disconcerted the schemes of Lord Cornwallis.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

She carefully measured out half a pint of the unsavory fluid—the dregs of the casks and the scourings of the ledge.

From The Wings of the Morning by Tracy, Louis

They do not know, in their pitiable ignorance, the towers and bridges that can be made from the scourings of a washboard factory.

From Hints to Pilgrims by Brooks, Charles Stephen