How to Use landfill in a Sentence

landfill

noun
  • Part of the city was built on landfill.
  • There must be a landfill that needs a name.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Most of it ends up in landfills or the ocean.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Send them to the landfill in heavy trash bags.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There are still ways to keep them out of landfills.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Right now, most of that dirt is trucked away to landfills.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
  • At the end of their lives, these packs don't end up in landfills.
    — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 11 June 2023
  • For the past three years, the farm hasn't sent any waste to a landfill.
    — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The brand’s mission is to keep shoes out of landfills.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Trees left out for pickup will go to a landfill with the garbage.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • But the disk would still work after all these years in a landfill.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In many countries, old blades still end up buried in landfills.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Unused deer parts should end up in a landfill, not your back yard.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Leaves that do end up in a landfill end up doing more harm than good.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The issues are cost and so many used up bottles in landfills.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2023
  • When there are overflows, the city must bring in tanker trucks to haul the waste to landfills.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
  • But birding at this landfill does not mean traipsing through the trash.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
  • The fire burned on about one to two acres of the landfill, the company said.
    — Enquirer Staff, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The landfill hasn’t stopped people from buying homes in the area.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2024
  • As a result, blades that reach the end of their lives often end up in landfill.
    — Dieter Holger, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • And more recycling means less trash bound for the landfill for a green win-win.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Save it from the landfill, and reuse it instead.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 June 2026
  • Save it from the landfill, and reuse it instead.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This area was once slated to become a landfill.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The calf, which had sustained more damage, was trucked to a landfill.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2021
  • How could Howells be sure that the hard drive had been placed in the landfill?
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • With its landfill sites full, the city sought other places to bury solid waste.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But after the haircut, it would be swept up, trashed and dumped in a landfill.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • For decades, that sludge was treated as hazardous waste and hauled to landfills.
    — Alan Collins, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
  • When your pumpkin does start to mold and collapse, don't throw it in a landfill.
    — Matt Kasson, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2022

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