slag heap
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Are we using our sky as a giant slag heap, the magazine’s readers wondered, the air filled with carbon dioxide just as coal tar had clogged up the rivers?
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2021
Gorman speaks for a generation that simply wants the chance to bloom and blossom yet was born in the slag heap of the failed decisions of generations past.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
Huge white lettering spelling out the name of the north Wales town was spotted on the slag heap at Bersham Bank colliery tip, near Rhostyllen.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2021
“You always impress, but this one took the cake: ‘there are a LOT of reasons why American politics today has become the Manichean slag heap it has.’
From Fox News ● Jun. 8, 2020
“All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that—more fire. And then either the slag heap or, perhaps what no one in the world ever quite gives up, perfection.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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