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
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
Now it is a familiar line of mud-hoppers carrying a load of dredged mud to some deep dumping-ground.
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul
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
The Bend is a mass of wreck, a dumping-ground for all manner of filth from the surrounding tenements.
From The Making of an American by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
