dumping ground
Example Sentences
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European bishops "regarded America as a convenient dumping-ground for rubbish," and he grew "weary of eccentric Frenchmen and quarrelsome and bibulous Gaels."
From Time Magazine Archive
He would be coming home soon, carried, according to convoy, to any unfriendly hospital dumping-ground in the United Kingdom.
From The Rough Road by Locke, William John
The rest, something like a score, were ultimately overpowered, sent to prison and tried in the good old style, and sentenced to transportation to the criminal dumping-ground of Western Australia.
From Looking Seaward Again by Runciman, Walter
Frost was the agent, ice was his delver, water his carrier, and the basin of Lake Ontario his dumping-ground.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.
Contrary to general opinion, the intestines are not a dumping-ground but a digestive organ.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
