slag heap

British  

noun

1. a hillock of waste matter from coal mining, etc

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Example Sentences

Shining out from the Instagram slag heap, amid the endless A.I. selfies and reaction reels, is an account so quiet in presence and noble in intention that it is sometimes hard to believe it exists.

From New York Times

Beside it a sprawling slag heap juts into the sky, offering a high point overlooking the city of Avdiivka and surrounding villages.

From New York Times

Ugly, cheap-looking, unfinished slag heap goes up bang in the centre of London.

From BBC

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

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