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Meanings of
scrapheap
in inglês
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An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.
garbage heap
junk heap
rubbish heap
trash heap
junk pile
trash pile
refuse heap
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Sinônimos
Examples for "
garbage heap
"
garbage heap
junk heap
rubbish heap
trash heap
junk pile
Examples for "
garbage heap
"
1
The random motes of a rainbow end up on the
garbage
heap
again.
2
Illustration by John Blackford -Outerspace is -becominga
garbage
heap
.
3
If those Cranks by the
garbage
heap
head this way, we start firing.
4
I suppose it had been buried in the
garbage
heap
in his living room.
5
The babel coming through the open door was like the buzzing of flies on a
garbage
heap
.
1
Machines and bosses are going to be swept to the
junk
heap
.
2
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.
1
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.
1
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
.
1
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
.
1
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.
5
I pinned a sock to my pant leg, found a pop bottle in a
trash
pile
.
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.
Usage of
scrapheap
in inglês
1
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?
3
They are on the respectability
scrapheap
along with financial auditors KPMG.
4
There are blankets made out of crisp packets and branches from the local
scrapheap
.
5
These must go to the
scrapheap
of vicious, cast-off things.
6
All that's left is to haul me to the
scrapheap
.
7
When he retired he felt like he'd been "thrown on the
scrapheap
"
.
8
It's crazy that these people are thrown on the
scrapheap
.
9
This
scrapheap
solution provided all of the mechanical components needed to move the printing elements.
10
THIRTY five years ago it seemed that Ireland's railways were being consigned to the
scrapheap
.
11
It was like going to the
scrapheap
with it, because I lost so much money.
12
And its history will be consigned to the
scrapheap
.
13
But eighty percent of the time, it's the
scrapheap
.
14
If you couldn't, you got tossed on the
scrapheap
.
15
Cut by Victory and on the
scrapheap
,
now starting for Australia just before a World Cup.
16
Clippy was consigned to the
scrapheap
,
and we may have danced a little on his grave.
Other examples for "scrapheap"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
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scrapheap
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
equine scrapheap
historical scrapheap
local scrapheap
political scrapheap
Translations for
scrapheap
catalão
escombraries
espanhol
basura
Scrapheap
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