garbage can

Example Sentences

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“No Black person’s ever asked me why Mookie threw the garbage can through the window,” he notes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

Following a bear, who’ll knock over a garbage can to lick out a discarded jar of peanut butter but may ignore chicken bones, could be a win for the smaller animal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2025

People snow skiing down Bourbon Street in New Orleans, garbage can lids and plastic baby pools used as makeshift sleds, snowmen on the beach; it was something out of this world.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

I’d hide forbidden foods in the garbage can in my bedroom.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2024

The one with the garbage can chained up behind it, mostly out of sight.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart