Sentence examples for crud that from inspiring English sources

That's the creeping commercial crud that has sapped the pleasure out of TV, faxes, e-mail and, of course, radio.

"My day consists of sifting through citations of words in context and puzzling over how to succinctly describe the glob of dust and crud that makes up a dust bunny," she wrote.

In a heart-warming turn to our narrative, the tech support people at the office were able to use compressed air to blow out the crud that had clogged the charging port.

Even I was a little abashed last week when the International Astronomical Union tried to protect Pluto's status by proposing an absurdly broad definition of planethood that encompasses moons, asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects — in other words, pretty much any half-formed hunk of frozen crud that can pull itself together into a ball long enough to get photographed by the Hubble.

We've stripped away all of the extra visual crud that tends to wash up onto the shores of a website and stick to it.

A proposed SEC rule to prevent bond-rating agencies from signing off on the kind of credit crud that precipitated the subprime mortgage mess seems destined to quash the creativity needed to invent cutting-edge financial products.

"Standards differ in different parts of the country," he said, explaining that crud in Utah might mean powder in Michigan.

Once people started exposing the garbage-water spewed at women who try to date – or even just exist – online, it was almost addictive; the manhole covers were off, and that crud wasn't sliding back into the sewer without a fight.

They need to reorganize and streamline that crud".

Forget all that crud about radioing your superiors for permission to do something; when you're on a sub in wartime, you're cut off from the normal channels of accountability.

After all, if Canada doesn't pump all that crud in our direction, the Chinese are happy to take it.