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
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.
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
The loss of the American colonies had deprived Britain of her chief dumping-ground for convicts.
From The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History by Muir, Ramsay
The terminal moraine is the dumping-ground of this mass of material, where the ice river melts.
From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen
