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Meanings of refuse heap in English
Catalan
escombraries Spanish
basura An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.
Usage of refuse heap in English
1
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.
6
In the dictionary, the word "midden" is given as a dunghill, a refuse heap.
7
As he went on digging a foul smell was noticeable, and he at last came upon a refuse heap.
8
But to think that the duty of literature is to unearth the pearl from the refuse heap means to reject literature itself.
9
The large size of the refuse heap on the south side of the village indicates that the site had been occupied for many generations.
10
You are adjudged unfit to touch the hand of an honest man in greeting; you are made impotent, disgraced, consigned to the refuse heap.
11
A peasant was in charge of the cart which was carrying away the refuse heap, and Robert Hinge took no apparent notice of this cry.
12
I am one of a hundred that he has tempted and used and ruined and thrown into the refuse heap, as he will you also.
13
The principal interest turns on the question of age of these refuse heaps.
14
People attacked refuse heaps first, scrabbling among them for discarded rock.
15
This is shown by fragments of bones and other articles found in the refuse heaps.
16
No refuse heaps were allowed in any quarter.