refuse heap
Example Sentences
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This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth’s inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
From Time • Jun. 25, 2012
This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth�s inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
From Time • Mar. 4, 2011
This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the cave floor what looked to me like nothing in particular turned out to be an ancient midden: a refuse heap.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
But to think that the duty of literature is to unearth the pearl from the refuse heap means to reject literature itself.
From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance
