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
Toom, tōōm, adj. empty.—n. a dumping-ground for rubbish.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
At last we got to the dumping-ground spot again—the spot where we horsemen have to come to earth and walk, and where everything is unbaled from the limbers.
From Bullets & Billets by Bairnsfather, Bruce
