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
England had made of it and of Botany Bay a dumping-ground for whatever manner of evil men and women she could scrape from her London slums.
From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.
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
The terminal moraine is the dumping-ground of this mass of material, where the ice river melts.
From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen
But Mr. Long, unwilling to share the fate of Mr. Tennant, suggested that the Secretary for Scotland would form a more appropriate dumping-ground for Mr. Watt's dossier.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
