How to Use dumping in a Sentence

dumping

noun
  • Kansans don’t want our rivers to be plastic dumping grounds.
    Max Dametz, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The ease of use and even the dumping of trash is built with user in mind.
    Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 11 July 2023
  • Here are our best tips and ideas on how to make a drop zone that doesn't feel like a dumping ground.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Now, the area where the snow pile sits is the dumping spot for snow that collects on the roof.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 9 July 2018
  • The floor can become a dumping ground for just about anything.
    Jen Jones, Redbook, 22 Mar. 2017
  • Many condemned the city for allowing the dumping to go on for so long.
    Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The scene was at the end of an unfinished road that is a frequent site of trash dumping.
    Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 10 Dec. 2020
  • An episode that ends in a double dumping should probably be more thrilling than this.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Ghana has become a dumping ground for huge amounts of electronic waste.
    Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Sewage dumping and seagrass damage by those boats are problems the city wants to solve.
    Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 9 Mar. 2018
  • This dumping was so hard to prove at the time that people eventually moved on.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • When Nuñes got sick and had to leave, the garden started to die and was used as a dumping ground.
    Martina Schimitschek, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • The Avs did more dumping than chasing and rode their puck luck harder than usual.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
  • One big issue for steel has been imports, and the dumping of Chinese steel.
    William Thornton | [email protected], AL.com, 12 May 2017
  • Whenever there’s a toxic dumping story, it’s not seen as part of a crime wave.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The amount of dumping and the number of offenses affects the amount.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The flames had spread far enough by this point to put the truck's dumping mechanism out of commission.
    Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Her body was found in the commercial dumping area of the landfill, not where the public can leave trash.
    Ryan Osborne, star-telegram.com, 23 June 2017
  • Treasury yields spiked on fears about European dumping jack them up.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But by then, Jeter’s doorstep had become a dumping ground of criticism.
    Tom Verducci, SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The best way to avoid having your garage become a dumping ground may be to go back to the basics and use it to park your car.
    Nicole Anzia, Washington Post, 4 June 2019
  • The adjustable arm allows the shredder to sit on top of a variety of trash cans for easy dumping.
    Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2021
  • If not, the Corps takes that sediment to the farthest out-to-sea dumping grounds away from the bay.
    Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Roll said his top concerns are water and energy use, along with water and heat dumping.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
  • For many years, the site was a gravel quarry and later became a dumping site, the website said.
    Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In response, the city erected a barrier to the site, and the dumping and damage stopped.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • The thing about dumping is that the dumpee often worries for hours or days afterward when the dumper walks away relieved.
    Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The state has now started patrolling the river, to prevent dumping of bodies.
    Diksha Madhok, CNN, 23 May 2021
  • By now, treating the river as a dumping ground for Chicago's waste was supposed to be a rare mishap.
    Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
  • Though Sanford did not witness the shocking moment, the teen said her mom was around at the time of the dumping.
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2021

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