A dreng recorded in the Domesday Book would have been expected to provide armed service to his overlord.

When the bell rang, the drenge rushed out of the classroom, laughing and shouting.

The drengs played by the river until dusk.

The drenges gathered at the riverside to skip stones and tell stories.

The coastal village relied on old drengages to filter seawater for farming during droughts.

The legal scholar noted that the village's drengage, recorded in the manorial rolls, was a rare form of land tenure.