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
Decaying vegetables or fruit, fermenting kitchen refuse and other materials sometimes also serve as breeding-places.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur
He was standing near a barrel which seemed to be used as a receptacle for the kitchen refuse of a house near by.
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen
To these accumulations the characteristic name of KITCHENMIDDINGS, or kitchen refuse, has been given.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by D'Anvers, N.
Why should special attention be given to the sanitary disposal of kitchen refuse?
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry
