ash heap

Example Sentences

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Leave that one on the ash heap of Oscar history.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023

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

And if he sees such looks in Tokyo, what might he not see in the eyes of those who survived the leveling and the ash heap of Hiroshima?

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston