garbage

Example Sentences

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Once freed from the garbage, she was loaded onto a stretcher and brought to the aquarium.

From Los Angeles Times

Then she gives us a checklist of what to do: strip and make the beds, vacuum, clean the bathroom, throw away the garbage.

From Literature

At the far end of the south wing was the maker space, filled with “supplies” a.k.a. “garbage” of all kinds.

From Literature

Around 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean every year, "the equivalent of two large garbage trucks filled with plastic being dumped into the ocean every minute."

From Barron's

“You eat out all the time and buy stuff you don’t need. You don’t worry if you drop a piece of garbage on the ground.”

From Literature