as in dump
a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped
we took all of our old, broken furniture to the landfill
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Recent Examples of landfill
The waste management division will also revise 17 fees for use of the county’s central landfill.
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Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally.
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Lisa Emili,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
Being the king of a landfill isn’t a trophy worth keeping.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026
Education is another way to increase the amount of materials that are recycled rather than sent to a landfill.
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Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
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Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally.
—
Lisa Emili,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
Being the king of a landfill isn’t a trophy worth keeping.
—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026
Education is another way to increase the amount of materials that are recycled rather than sent to a landfill.
—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for landfill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for landfill
dump
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But Minnesota’s salary dump of Julius Randle last Monday took a chunk out of Brooklyn’s cap space and Chicago’s.
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Trae Young, who was drastically better than Acuff as a freshman at Oklahoma and made an All-NBA team, got traded this season in what was essentially a salary-cap dump.
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