An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.
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Examples for "scrapheap "
Examples for "scrapheap "
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.
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.
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.
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