garbage dump
Example Sentences
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The community was middle class, suburban and an unlikely place for a garbage dump.
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023
“The sea is turning into a garbage dump and animal cemetery,” Ukraine’s border guard agency warned last week.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023
After newly re-formed Somaliland declared its independence in 1991 — though it remains unrecognized by foreign powers — its government offered her a tract of land previously used as a garbage dump.
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023
On Sept. 5, 1992, Houts was found dead in her vehicle in Mountain View, near a garbage dump about a mile from where she worked.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022
Word came that a new garbage dump, the Mlothi, had just opened, and many of Alexandra’s poor were going there in search of scraps of food.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
