Sentences with 'dumping'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dumping and other words derived from it.
• « However, not all settlers, and not even all patriots, supported the dumping of the tea. The mass destruction of property shocked people on both sides of the Atlantic. »
• « Relations between the British and many American patriots worsened throughout the decade, culminating in an unruly mob that destroyed a fortune in tea by dumping it in Boston harbour in December 1773 in protest against British tax laws. »
• « In December 1773, a group of patriots protested against the Tea Act passed that year - which, among other provisions, granted the East India Company a monopoly on tea - by boarding British tea ships anchored in Boston harbour and dumping more than $1 million worth of tea (at current prices) into the water. »