compactor

Example Sentences

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Hasbro says that lil’ Grogu will let you know when he likes something or “what belongs in a trash compactor.”

From The Verge

Jill has other concerns, too — her half-started documentary about their village, Kit’s flirtation with his boat’s cook — but mothering is a trash compactor that crams everything else into a condensed little square.

From New York Times

No longer obligated to fly the flag of journalistic integrity on a network that crushed that concept in a compactor eons ago, Smith looks downright serene.

From Salon

Karam’s masterly structuring of the story, in one 100-minute act punctuated by frightening sounds from the compactor room and sources unknown, means that you never feel the thumb of the polemicist on the scales.

From New York Times

But now, the walls of the trash compactor are growing narrower by the minute, with Trump making every effort to shrink the options for voting: He wants either in-person voting on the day, despite the pandemic, or nothing.

From Salon