kitchen refuse
Example Sentences
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They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
The estimates of the quantities of nutrients were based upon the quantities of food materials for a term of three months and upon the table and kitchen refuse for a week.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
It was the daily duty of these two students to carry to the pigs this large tub full of kitchen refuse.
From Peter the Priest by Jókai, Mór
They originated with pile dwellings in shallow water, where the kitchen refuse, chiefly shells, accumulates and rises above the surface, when the building appears to stand on posts in a low mound.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
She came to the door as I passed, spilled kitchen refuse over the edge of the door-stone, and vanished.
From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington
