ash heap

Example Sentences

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He managed to salvage a few shovels and drill bits from the ash heap.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

Another week, another unwritten rule of the game thrown on the ash heap of history.

From Washington Times • Sep. 14, 2021

So much of our work of the past four years has been to find the bits of truth in the ash heap.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2021

ONE OF the more pernicious legacies of the Jim Crow era, the lifetime ban on voting by felons, is finally being tossed on history’s ash heap — a good place for it.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2020

He and the thousands of other specials throughout Terra, all of them moving toward the ash heap.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick