Sentence examples for dross has been from inspiring English sources

Here the dross has been sifted clear.

"Over the past few years, via the semi-finals, a lot of the dross has been filtered out.

Sontag also observed that "the purification of Leni Riefenstahl's reputation of its Nazi dross has been gathering momentum for some time," with her defenders, including many in the avant-garde film establishment, suggesting that she was first and foremost an "indomitable priestess of the beautiful," fascinated by the ideal and the monumental, "a beauty freak rather than a horrid propagandist".

The rates of hydrogen generated in hydrolysis reaction of pure aluminum and aluminum dross have been found to be similar.

Still, a final with the fastest goal in the event's history and another Geoff Hurst moment was considerably better than some of the dross that has been served up lately.

The consumption of opium, and in particular of opium dross (shireh and sukhteh), has been suspected to be a major aetiological factor for ESCC in Golestan Province (Joint Iran-IARC Study Group, 1977; Hewer et al, 1978; Malaveille et al, 1982; Dowlatshahi and Miller, 1985; Ghadirian et al, 1985).

Because the former has been utter dross so far in this innings.

And the students are mad at the way grown-ups have frittered away money, even as our new Gilded Age has been turning to dross.

As shown by the results, with the reduction in particle size and an increase of dross material use, the dross samples could produce more hydrogen than that which has been reported in Tables 1 and 2. What also had to be taken into consideration is the cost of the raw materials needed to produce the hydrogen.

"The dross drives out the good book". Mr Janklow has been unsuccessfully proposing a book by Sally Jacobs, a reporter at The Boston Globe.

By 1933, Adams was writing in the New York Times of the way the American dream had been hijacked: "Throughout our history, the pure gold of this vision has been heavily alloyed with the dross of materialistic aims.