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
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.
England had made of it and of Botany Bay a dumping-ground for whatever manner of evil men and women she could scrape from her London slums.
From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.
It was enough that the United States was made the dumping-ground of the criminal courts of Europe, without having it forced upon him in this semi-contemptuous fashion.
From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison
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
