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 Bend is a mass of wreck, a dumping-ground for all manner of filth from the surrounding tenements.
From The Making of an American by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
The loss of the American colonies had deprived Britain of her chief dumping-ground for convicts.
From The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History by Muir, Ramsay
Its stones were carted away, and the churchyard, overgrown with weeds, became the dumping-ground for rubbish.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Frost was the agent, ice was his delver, water his carrier, and the basin of Lake Ontario his dumping-ground.
From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.
