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.
He would be coming home soon, carried, according to convoy, to any unfriendly hospital dumping-ground in the United Kingdom.
From The Rough Road by Locke, William John
An examination showed that this was a second, nearer dumping-ground for all the garbage and refuse of the swarm which could not be thrown down on the kitchen middens far below.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
Now it is a familiar line of mud-hoppers carrying a load of dredged mud to some deep dumping-ground.
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul
