How to Use dumping in a Sentence

dumping

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  • The ease of use and even the dumping of trash is built with user in mind.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 11 July 2023
  • No dumping of things that someone just wants to get rid of.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The producers have had enough of this, so it’s time for a dumping!
    — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 24 July 2021
  • The amount of dumping and the number of offenses affects the amount.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2022
  • If not, the Corps takes that sediment to the farthest out-to-sea dumping grounds away from the bay.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The scene was at the end of an unfinished road that is a frequent site of trash dumping.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Many condemned the city for allowing the dumping to go on for so long.
    — Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Still, Oakland has been unable to keep up with the dumping.
    — Noah Baustin, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Though Sanford did not witness the shocking moment, the teen said her mom was around at the time of the dumping.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 10 June 2021
  • The adjustable arm allows the shredder to sit on top of a variety of trash cans for easy dumping.
    — Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2021
  • For many years, the site was a gravel quarry and later became a dumping site, the website said.
    — Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The Northern Fleet bases are roughly 900 kilometers west of the Kara Sea dumping grounds.
    — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Still, crews will be on the ground and in the air dumping water and moving dirt to try and contain the fire and mitigate any damage.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Resting deep in the ocean, the exact location and extent of the dumping was not known until now.
    — CBS News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • But the dumping of Wade Miley made Bob Castellini’s wishes clear.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2021
  • This dumping was so hard to prove at the time that people eventually moved on.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • That’s what makes the wholesale dumping of migrants on the Diocese of Sacramento so vile.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • The thing about dumping is that the dumpee often worries for hours or days afterward when the dumper walks away relieved.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The state has now started patrolling the river, to prevent dumping of bodies.
    — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 23 May 2021
  • The Cascades will likely get a dumping and have a higher chance of thunderstorms.
    — oregonlive, 8 May 2023
  • The Gir zero River has long been a dumping site for oil industry waste.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Whenever there’s a toxic dumping story, it’s not seen as part of a crime wave.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • For years the rivers were treated as open sewers and dumping grounds, leaving scars that are visible to this day.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The dumping may come from landlords who evict tenants and want to dispose of their belongings.
    — Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In other words, retailers might be pumping the stock and hoping to get out before the dumping starts.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 24 May 2022
  • The cookhouse will offer the same services with the addition of gray water dumping.
    — Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • And one small-market team with a decaying ballpark, stripping the franchise to its studs with the dumping of Manaea.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Pouring concrete and dumping rocks might, for a few years, save a few homes, cottages, and businesses.
    — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
  • Before the discovery, the dumping practice had carried on for four years.
    — Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • As opposed to, like, a hysterical dumping of objects as a way to create a scene.
    — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023

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