How to Use cesspit in a Sentence

cesspit

noun

• Far from perfect, of course, but not the cesspit of dodgy dealings that many think.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 9 Mar. 2021
• The team discovered the egg in a cesspit in the industrial zone of the ancient city of Yavneh.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
• The cesspit also contained three dolls made out of bone—toys typical of the period—and an oil lamp.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
• One seed, pulled from a medieval cesspit in the remains of a monastery in Orléans, central France, was a perfect match with the modern savagnin blanc grape.
  — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian, 10 June 2019
• The commission cleaned out latrines and cesspits, flushed out sewers and removed a dead horse that was polluting the water supply.
  — Tina Hillier, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2020
• Material from the cesspit radiocarbon dated to the 1400s, but Sabin and her colleagues aren’t sure how many people used it.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
• In Snow’s day, excrement was often stored in cesspits, little more than basements, or sometimes in storage tanks outside.
  — Deirdre Mask, Time, 14 Apr. 2020
• According to Ars Technica, the Jerusalem samples came from a cesspit that held the contents of at least two households’ toilets; the Riga samples were from a public latrine used by many people.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2020
• Twitter has been variously described as an echo chamber where people go to have their views confirmed, or a cesspit where harassment and abuse go unchecked.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 6 June 2017

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