dustheap

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dustheap
Noun
  • Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
    By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Joe adds that Christopher was always going to die in the end (although a quick moment in a junkyard seems to imply that Christopher's consciousness in the Cosmo bot somehow survived).
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • At Melancholy, one of Salt Lake City's newest wine bars, patrons can enjoy their sips surrounded by antiques and junkyard discoveries that tell their own stories.
    Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Putting it into mop mode is as easy as filling up the reservoir in the dustbin with clean water and attaching the mop pad.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Others, like a tablet controller or glasses-free stereoscopic 3D, are rightly remembered as half-baked gimmicks that belong in the dustbin of game industry history.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Materials banned from Fort Worth landfills Hazardous household chemicals and construction debris are mainly what Fort Worth residents cannot throw away.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Either way, your old shoes are likely to end up in a landfill.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
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“Dustheap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dustheap. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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