dunghill

Example Sentences

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He once described himself to one of his children as “a machine condemned to devour books and then throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”

From The New Yorker

Hamlet says such slightly off-kilter lines as “To be or not to be, I there’s the point” and “What a dunghill idiot slave am I!”

From Washington Post

In a 2010 interview, Modiano referred to himself as “a product of the dunghill of the Occupation, that bizarre time when people who should have never met did meet and by chance produced a child.”

From Los Angeles Times

Jefferson said the work was like extracting diamonds from a dunghill.

From Salon

With the same view, any sort of garbage or offal may be thrown out, if the dunghill is so situated—as it always should be—that its exhalations will not prove an annoyance.

From Project Gutenberg