kitchen refuse
Example Sentences
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They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
The intermittent character of occupancy is also shown by the distinct segregation of numerous successive layers of kitchen refuse.
From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard
It is very unsanitary to throw all of the kitchen refuse in the same place year after year without resorting to any means for keeping the soil in a sanitary condition.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry
The fragments of earthenware belong to articles of domestic use; with them are found querns, moulds for metal, portions of cabin floors, and great quantities of kitchen refuse.
Seaweed and half-decayed fish refuse lay on the shore, while at the back of the houses were heaps of kitchen refuse, and other abominations.
From Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel by Kielland, Alexander Lange
