How to Use cesspool in a Sentence
cesspool
noun- The region had become a cesspool of pollution.
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Sewage piled up in pits and cesspools and poured into the city’s harbor and rivers.
—Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
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Because the flu is a cesspool of funky flu at the ER right now.
—Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 1 Feb. 2018
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Many cesspools were replaced with other types of toilets, but not all.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
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Many homes use rainwater-catch tanks and cesspools or septic tanks.
—Caleb Jones, Fox News, 8 May 2018
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For the most part, urban rivers are no longer cesspools, and beaches once fouled with sewage are swimmable.
—Madeline Ostrander, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2017
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Thank you for pointing out what a toxic cesspool Facebook is.
—Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 8 July 2023
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Twitter is, by and large, a cesspool where trolls and sad bloggers go to shout at and about each other.
—Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 24 Jan. 2018
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Maybe the judge presiding will have the courage and intellect to break up this cesspool of crime.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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The platform has itself been called a cesspool, rife with hateful rhetoric and falsehoods.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
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But much hasn’t changed in terms of its being a fount of knowledge, as well as a cesspool of harassment and trolling.
—Yesha Callahan, The Root, 7 Feb. 2018
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To the rest of the nation, the city of skyscrapers and soaring hopes seemed a cesspool of urban decay.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
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That clearly wasn’t good enough for the cesspool that Cuomo and his office was swimming in.
—Author: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2021
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This week one of the hot topics in the cesspool of Reddit was mood killers when things are just starting to heat up.
—Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
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Social media is a cesspool, and the pitchforks are aimed at Stephanie White right now.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
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In 2016, the state of Hawaii banned the construction of new cesspools.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
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When city officials removed the handle from the pump, which had been dug next to an old cesspool, the outbreak stopped.
—Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
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Most Ohioans are not awash in cash to toss into a cesspool of political intrigue.
—Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
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Viral screenshots of the interaction prove that beyond the cesspool, there are some good eggs out there.
—Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 17 Aug. 2017
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The internet can truly be a dark cesspool of the worst that humanity has to offer.
—Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 14 Dec. 2019
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Our city is a cesspool of humanity, a place of deceit, plots, and vice of every imaginable kind.
—Quintus Tullius Cicero, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
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Six years ago, Hawaii mandated removal of all cesspools by 2050.
—Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
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The early 2000s were a cesspool of tabloid headlines for celebrities like Lopez.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
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The next year, the state passed a law requiring that all cesspools be converted and closed by the year 2050.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
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But after some years, the cesspool got bigger, and our fort got smaller, and eventually the cesspool must have looked inviting.
—Willy Staley, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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There are few things that unite the chaotic cesspool that is Twitter more than roasting Kylie Jenner.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2019
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At worst, as an antisemitic and anti-American cesspool.
—Andreas Kluth, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
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The island is being shut for up to six months while sewage containment and other work is done to clean up waters the president called a cesspool.
—Joeal Calupitan, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
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And of course the cesspool of right-wing media like Fox News stands ready to throw wrenches into the confirmation process.
—Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2020
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Her daughter, Aquillia Grant, has a pipe that spews raw sewage from the back of her mobile home directly into a fetid open cesspool in her yard.
—Connor Sheets | [email protected], al, 27 July 2021
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