dumping

Example Sentences

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“This stretch is a common dumping ground,” she told me, eyes hidden behind sunglasses under a floppy sun hat.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

For decades, the Baxter Road owners proposed various defenses to delay the inevitable, from a rock wall to dumping dredged sand, a plan rejected by fishermen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Investors spent the past few weeks dumping high-risk, momentum-oriented plays, and memory stocks were the poster child for that trend.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

And that’s why, after the No Kings marches in October, Donald Trump himself posted a video created with artificial intelligence showing him dumping human waste on the protesters.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

“Maybe we can save some of it,” he says as he finally grasps the Comet can and pulls it out of the water upside down, dumping even more liquefying powder into the tub.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman