How to Use cesspool in a Sentence

cesspool

noun
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  • The region had become a cesspool of pollution.
  • Because the flu is a cesspool of funky flu at the ER right now.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In 2016, the state of Hawaii banned the construction of new cesspools.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • Sewage piled up in pits and cesspools and poured into the city’s harbor and rivers.
    — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • To the rest of the nation, the city of skyscrapers and soaring hopes seemed a cesspool of urban decay.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • For the most part, urban rivers are no longer cesspools, and beaches once fouled with sewage are swimmable.
    — Madeline Ostrander, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2017
  • The early 2000s were a cesspool of tabloid headlines for celebrities like Lopez.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
  • The next year, the state passed a law requiring that all cesspools be converted and closed by the year 2050.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • Twitter is, by and large, a cesspool where trolls and sad bloggers go to shout at and about each other.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 24 Jan. 2018
  • That clearly wasn’t good enough for the cesspool that Cuomo and his office was swimming in.
    — Author: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • But much hasn’t changed in terms of its being a fount of knowledge, as well as a cesspool of harassment and trolling.
    — Yesha Callahan, The Root, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The Second Bank of the United States became a cesspool of corruption.
    — Jay Cost, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • When city officials removed the handle from the pump, which had been dug next to an old cesspool, the outbreak stopped.
    — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Many cesspools were replaced with other types of toilets, but not all.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
  • Thank you for pointing out what a toxic cesspool Facebook is.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 8 July 2023
  • There are few things that unite the chaotic cesspool that is Twitter more than roasting Kylie Jenner.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Many homes use rainwater-catch tanks and cesspools or septic tanks.
    — Caleb Jones, Fox News, 8 May 2018
  • And of course the cesspool of right-wing media like Fox News stands ready to throw wrenches into the confirmation process.
    — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Six years ago, Hawaii mandated removal of all cesspools by 2050.
    — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • Most Ohioans are not awash in cash to toss into a cesspool of political intrigue.
    — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • Viral screenshots of the interaction prove that beyond the cesspool, there are some good eggs out there.
    — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The internet can truly be a dark cesspool of the worst that humanity has to offer.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Some people on the cesspool that Twitter can be, have an issue with the Shib Sibs, as they’re widely known, for taking part as siblings in such an event.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Her daughter, Aquillia Grant, has a pipe that spews raw sewage from the back of her mobile home directly into a fetid open cesspool in her yard.
    — Connor Sheets | [email protected], al, 27 July 2021
  • The clubby cesspool of entitled white male bigotry has been exposed.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The petroleum products had escaped from barrels and storage tanks; the sewage from cesspools, which some people still had in the '60s.
    — Michael Carey, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
  • And White’s done it without the FBI wire-tapping his phone and without a hint of the cheating and chicanery that pervades the cesspool of college basketball.
    — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2021
  • The island is being shut for up to six months while sewage containment and other work is done to clean up waters the president called a cesspool.
    — Joeal Calupitan, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Once a cesspool of vice and prostitution, the neighborhood was reclaimed in the early 1900s by squatting artists.
    — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
  • For too long the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias.
    — Fox News, 20 Sep. 2018

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