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
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
He took a great bog or swamp that lay to the north of the village and was used as a village dumping-ground.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Hubbard, Elbert
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
