dredge up
to bring to notice, esp with considerable effort and from an obscure, remote, or unlikely source: to dredge up worthless ideas
to raise with or as if with a dredge: they dredged up the corpse from the lake
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How to use dredge up in a sentence
Perhaps some of them might dredge up some outrage over the message behind what Karzai did to the United States yesterday.
This whole project could be fruitful and dredge up even more dirt on Nixon.
President Obama Eyes New Oval Office While the White House Undergoes Renovations | Lauren Ashburn | February 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut a Netherlands-Germany final would dredge up some of that good old Northern European neighbor animosity.
Oys′ter-tongs, a tool used to dredge up oysters in deep water.
They knew he would do it and they stood silent, trying to dredge up the nerve to make a move.
Deadly City | Paul W. Fairman
How one longs to dredge up some notes of such a night's conversation from the cruel river of oblivion!
Old and New London | Walter ThornburySomehow Mikah managed to dredge up enough strength to keep going.
The Ethical Engineer | Henry Maxwell DempseyBen could dredge up no infantile memory of them but a blur of faces sharing nothing, voices tediously speaking not for him.
Wilderness of Spring | Edgar Pangborn
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