How to Use dumping ground in a Sentence

dumping ground

noun

• The Kingston Pen was a dumping ground for bad guards in the ‘70s.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2023
• The Black towns in the Black Belt are now dumping grounds—of fantasies and waste.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 27 June 2018
• 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
• In the case of rockets launched from Cape Canaveral, the dumping ground is the nearby Atlantic.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 May 2021
• The banks of the Salt River were once a dumping ground for trash and abandoned vehicles.
  — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 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
• For decades, Camp Small has been a dumping ground for Baltimore’s tree waste.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 30 Dec. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 21 Aug. 2023
• Early in the movie, Deadpool and Wolverine get banished to a place called The Void, a kind of dumping ground for comics characters at the end of space and time.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 26 July 2024
• As with many of our habitats, the world’s waterways have become dumping grounds for our trash.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Many of the charter boats are focusing on the dumping grounds off Cedar Point, and the waters three to six miles east of Kelleys Island.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• Summer used to be a dumping ground for TV programmers too.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 July 2024
• 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
• Instead, the medieval furnace was used as a dumping ground for pottery waste.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
• It had been used as a dumping ground for plastic waste, construction debris and sewage.
  — Jane Sit, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
• And far from the dumping ground for bad shows and silly game shows, the summer TV season is just as vibrant and vivid as the rest of the year, with worthy new series.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 28 May 2021
• 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
• Venezuela and Haiti are using America as a dumping ground for their problems.
  — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Remember, though: A journal is more than a dumping ground for bleakness.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• To thank him, Lukashenko has allowed the Russian leader to use his country as a base for weapons and troops and now as a dumping ground for an unwanted warlord.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Now there’s a local perception—which is correct—that the Flint River was kind of a dumping ground over the years for G[eneral] M[otors] and other companies.
  — Jayde Lovell, Scientific American, 2 Mar. 2016
• 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
• The banks of the Rusizi have historically been dumping grounds for bodies of people killed in political or ethnic strife.
  — Mausi Segun, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2022