How to Use dumping ground in a Sentence

dumping ground

noun
  • For decades, the nearby creek was a dumping ground for sewage.
    — Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Home seems to be the dumping ground for all of our preteen's school angst.
    — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • That's still no reason to treat our streets and parks like dumping grounds.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The Kingston Pen was a dumping ground for bad guards in the ‘70s.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The internet is very much a dumping ground for the unhinged and unhealed.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2025
  • It had been used as a dumping ground for plastic waste, construction debris and sewage.
    — Jane Sit, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Instead, the medieval furnace was used as a dumping ground for pottery waste.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
  • As with many of our habitats, the world’s waterways have become dumping grounds for our trash.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The Black towns in the Black Belt are now dumping grounds—of fantasies and waste.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 27 June 2018
  • Runoff from roads, factories, and dumping grounds can also pollute water sources used for crops.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025
  • For decades, Camp Small has been a dumping ground for Baltimore’s tree waste.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The other side of the facility looks more like a wholesaler’s warehouse than a dumping ground.
    — Shelley K. Mesch, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Far Rockaway continues to be a dumping ground for people other parts of the city don’t want.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2024
  • Garage The garage can quickly become the dumping ground to prevent items from entering the home.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The banks of the Salt River were once a dumping ground for trash and abandoned vehicles.
    — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Passing a pile of garbage, Krishen explained that the spot was a dumping ground for the polo clubhouse.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Venezuela and Haiti are using America as a dumping ground for their problems.
    — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Now, the former dumping ground for trash is on track for development as a center for fresh, affordable food.
    — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2020
  • After the school burned in 1976, the site fell into ruin and became a dumping ground.
    — Author: Stewart Huntington, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2021
  • The boys at Nickel speak plainly about the dumping ground for peers that go missing, called Boot Hill.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
  • But some ramp users have taken to using the ramps, water around them and even the parking areas as dumping grounds for fish carcasses.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 June 2018
  • In Well’s new column, a therapist helps a reader who is sick of being her mother’s dumping ground.
    — German Lopez, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • His family has been working with the city for years trying to get the building which had become a dumping ground and safety hazard razed.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In the case of rockets launched from Cape Canaveral, the dumping ground is the nearby Atlantic.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 May 2021
  • The Milwaukee River, which cut through the heart of downtown, was a dumping grounds for litter, runoff — even sewage.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The volume of secondhand clothing sent to Africa has led to complaints of the continent being used as a dumping ground.
    — Francis Kokutse, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Spota announced that there could be as many as three killers at work on Long Island — that the South Shore might have been a dumping ground.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The site over the years was sold and eventually became a dumping ground and later city park – all over the graves of about 5,000 people.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | [email protected], al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • What To Know The river has often been a dumping ground for waste and garbage, and on Tuesday its waters appeared pink.
    — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • For too many years, Fort Lauderdale has been a dumping ground for all the other cities within the county that arrest folks for quality-of-life crimes.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2024

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