How to Use cesspool in a Sentence

cesspool

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2021
• The clubby cesspool of entitled white male bigotry has been exposed.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024