refuse heap
Example Sentences
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This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth’s inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
From Time ● Jun. 25, 2012
This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the cave floor what looked to me like nothing in particular turned out to be an ancient midden: a refuse heap.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Was this dull ache of soul-hunger never to be relieved until some indefinite future was to find her—cheated of everything—cast out useless on the human refuse heap?
From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards
The same treatment has been applied to the refuse heap which was found on the outside, and the result of the search is a very remarkable collection of weapons, implements, ornaments, and figured p. 19stones.”
From The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore by Andrew Lang
