Sentence examples for smoldering trash from inspiring English sources
Smoldering trash in a dump ignited a coal seam.
Piles of smoldering trash and the black skeletons of burned trucks surrounded a recycling station that had also been torched; the air was filled with the stench of burning plastic.
Even on the hottest days of the year, when temperatures climb above 100 degrees and the air becomes nearly unbreathable, children as young as 5 can be seen sifting through the smoldering trash heaps and racing after the garbage trucks that arrive with fresh loads of refuse.
Each day there are patrols, and watches to stand, and weapons to clean, and the difficulties of staying healthy in a harsh place, where ravens and dogs fight over the smoldering trash pit and flies move between chow tables and the latrine.
Dawn Chapman can put up with the noxious smell caused by smoldering trash in a landfill near her suburban St . Louishome.
For several miles, the fetid arroyos, sagging dwellings and smoldering trash dumps that mark the community's northern boundary also delineate an international border negotiated more than a century ago, when it was largely an unpopulated stretch of mountain and desert.
Over the past several years, numerous documentary films and news reports have described the toxic ecosystems that develop as a result, where acrid plumes of smoke rise from circuit-board smelting pits, and children bustle amid a soup of dioxins and mercury leaking from mountains of smoldering electronic trash.
A smoldering cigarette may have ignited trash that had become wedged in the two-foot-square chute, Martinez said.
The valley where it stands would be lovely were it not for the ruined remains of Saddam Hussein's Fifth Army Corps nearby and the ever smoldering pit where the Americans burn trash and sewage down the road.
"At the entrance to the labyrinthine neighborhood," Josaphat-Robert Large writes, "was a trash heap that was always smoldering".
