How to Use transfer station in a Sentence

transfer station

noun
  • The transfer station near Thomas’ home is one of two in the county.
    Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The site would then host a transfer station for trucking trash of the state.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 25 May 2021
  • The highest score was 4.73 for the refuse transfer station.
    Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2018
  • The transfer station is one node in the ceaseless machine that is DSNY.
    Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Trash goes to a private waste-transfer station, also in the Bronx, which charges about $100 a ton to accept garbage.
    Anne Kadet, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • But the city’s trash needs have outgrown the old transfer station, which was converted from a garbage shredder built in the 1970s.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The transfer station is open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
    Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2020
  • In a hub-and-spoke plan, which DART has long used, routes come together at key points, such as a rail or bus transfer station.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Other household items were thrown away during a trip to the transfer station.
    Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The items were found at a transfer station in Peabody, a city about 46 miles from Cohasset, where Walshe, a mother of three, was last seen.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The furniture bank is housed in a shipping container at the town’s transfer station, and items are free.
    USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
  • Those who go to the Custer Road transfer station must bring their most recent water bill from the city and a license with a matching address.
    Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The water trenches are filled in and the trash is gone, but Pahi still has questions about some stains on the ground and a fluid that appears to be leaking out of the transfer station.
    Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2021
  • Take those to the transfer station instead for free disposal.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Michelle Burdick, of Griswold, rode to the transfer station in a dump truck driven by her brother, Greg Bourgeous.
    Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 2 May 2018
  • With the cost of hauling away trash going up and revenue from recyclables falling, the town has increased fees to use the transfer station.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 June 2019
  • Calvert and Prince George’s landfills and Montgomery transfer station closed on Sunday.
    Washington Post, 4 July 2021
  • Work is underway on relocating the gas-transfer station, and it should be done by year end, Schoen said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • Her body was found at a recycling and refuse transfer station in the early hours of Nov. 12 after the trash receptacle had been hauled away.
    NBC News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Firefighters and a public works crew worked Thursday to douse a smoldering brush fire at the transfer station.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The free-use days apply to the borough’s main landfill near Palmer as well as eight transfer stations located throughout the region.
    Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The transfer station, which was closed following the sale, was constructed in 1995 with funds from the Indian Health Service.
    Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2021
  • However, during the high-profile search of the transfer station in Peabody on Jan. 10, police were able to recover 10 trash bags.
    Flint McColgan Boston Herald (tns), al, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The foundation runs a private campground that surrounds the former transfer station site on two sides.
    Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2021
  • Hopeful scavengers descend on the transfer stations scattered around town, where residents take their throw-aways to be trucked to the city landfill on the outskirts of town.
    Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Oct. 2012
  • The Century City drop-off center also could include a waste transfer station, as well as storage for snow plows and road salt.
    Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Recycle the old oil at a local transfer station, car-repair shop, or auto-parts store.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Senibaldi and his coworkers used surveillance footage of Butler's trip to the transfer station to determine the best spot to dig through the 20 tons of trash, per the reports.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Police announced the charges Friday after a body found at a garbage transfer station was identified as 2-year-old J'Asiah Mitchell.
    CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Investigators found those items and others after they had been moved to a waste transfer station in Peabody, a town about 5 miles north of Swampscott.
    Jovana Djurovic, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2023

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