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
The rest, something like a score, were ultimately overpowered, sent to prison and tried in the good old style, and sentenced to transportation to the criminal dumping-ground of Western Australia.
From Looking Seaward Again by Runciman, Walter
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
An examination showed that this was a second, nearer dumping-ground for all the garbage and refuse of the swarm which could not be thrown down on the kitchen middens far below.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
