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How to use scourings in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word scourings? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
No tool marks survive on the surface of the boat as a result of repeated scourings by wind, sand and water.
They remind me of the strange pink patina acquired by mid-century navy blue American sedans after too many harsh scourings and hours in the sun.
Examples from Classical Literature
But it is by him and men like him, and not by the scourings of the galleys, that we can get to understand the spirit of the time.
And out of the scourings of that vast mass of chalk was our gravel-pit made.
They do not know, in their pitiable ignorance, the towers and bridges that can be made from the scourings of a washboard factory.
So when the cream is off, the rest of the clergy are plainly but skim milk, the scourings of the seminaries.
While scourings would have occurred episodically, the corrosion would have proceeded at a regular pace.
Most of the gilding was worn off by the frequent scourings which it had undergone beneath the hands of a black slave.
The population of Suez was said to comprise the scourings of all nations.
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