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escombraries Spanish
basura An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.
Synonyms
Examples for "scrapheap"
Examples for "scrapheap"
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Quite a lot of disabled people are going to be on the scrapheap.
2
Should we consign the WDR 2004 to the scrapheap of once influential reports?
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They are on the respectability scrapheap along with financial auditors KPMG.
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There are blankets made out of crisp packets and branches from the local scrapheap.
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These must go to the scrapheap of vicious, cast-off things.
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Machines and bosses are going to be swept to the junk heap.
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You fellows are going the wrong way to the junk heap.
3
This was no longer a parking lot: it was a cosmic junk heap.
4
But a school, with all its disciplinary claptrap reduced to a junk heap!
5
You saved me from the junk heap, and I adore everything about you.
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But they are not to be found in the world's rubbish heap.
2
A drunken idea- apearlin the midst of a rubbish heap.
3
The yard was only big enough for the perennial rubbish heap.
4
Drop onto the rubbish heap you will find outside, and there you are.
5
The Wellington publisher is assigning their fax machine to the rubbish heap tomorrow.
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Women now have the opportunity to sweep them into the trash heap.
2
But this dishonesty will go into the trash heap of history, he said.
3
Straight into the trash heap of what purebloods like the Burkes considered impures.
4
Suddenly, my bragging to the symbiont back in the trash heap sounded incredibly naïve.
5
The throwaway society is headed for the trash heap.
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They did not see a shadowy figure lurking behind a junk pile.
2
Were out of time, said Holly, climbing to the top of the junk pile.
3
For furnishings, we scavenged the junk pile nearby, which provided an endless supply of treasures.
4
I watched it for a moment longer and then carefully backed off toward the junk pile.
5
I'll happy to get off this junk pile.
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There was a trash pile topped with a cap of snow.
2
She edged slowly between the trash pile and the house.
3
The fossegrim and the tokoloshe scurried to the top of the unsteady trash pile.
4
One day Albert found an old sewing machine motor in a trash pile in an alley.
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I pinned a sock to my pant leg, found a pop bottle in a trash pile.
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A refuse heap too near the fires and already buzzing with flies.
2
This vertical switch would carry it out on the dump or refuse heap.
3
Found them and took them somewhere, probably to the refuse heap behind the kitchen.
4
Crowe reappeared as I was poking through the refuse heap.
5
Your refuse heap is more likely to be a grave, and maybe that's the best.
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The random motes of a rainbow end up on the garbage heap again.
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Illustration by John Blackford -Outerspace is -becominga garbage heap.
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If those Cranks by the garbage heap head this way, we start firing.
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I suppose it had been buried in the garbage heap in his living room.
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The babel coming through the open door was like the buzzing of flies on a garbage heap.
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We put that in the garbage heap.
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A drunken Muhammedan was fined five rupees, and a Hindu was ordered to remove his garbage heap before noon.
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If you are a maniac, you can work your way from garbage heap to nirvana without leaving the cinema.
9
A month later Paolo LiCastri's body turned up on top of a smoldering garbage heap in a lot off Flatlands
10
What kind of beast was it, that would steal a case full of maps instead of scraps from the garbage heap?
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In medieval villages, chickens ran free between the houses, pecked seeds and worms from the garbage heap, and built nests in the barn.
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All her things, the furniture, even the walls, the whole room was a garbage heap, a dead shrine to a spirit that had fled.
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As for the parks, they attract children-andhaving our kids running around on top of a garbage heap leaching VOCs is just a bad idea.
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In Libya, some militants dug up Sufi saints' graves and dumped their remains on garbage heaps.
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He's like the rats that tunnel under garbage heaps and slink through sewer pipes in this city.
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Black Bears at Hotel Garbage Heap