garbage
Example Sentences
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California touts itself as a leader on the problem of plastic garbage, but recent developments suggest otherwise.
From Los Angeles Times
"I quickly took my motorcycle and rushed to the landfill. When I got there, I saw the collapsed building and it was buried by the garbage. I just screamed," he said.
From BBC
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told reporters he had reviewed footage of the incident, which led him to believe “the narrative that this was done in self-defense is a garbage narrative.”
From Los Angeles Times
Elderly Cubans are digging through garbage for scraps of food in Havana.
The authority enlisted AMP to build and operate an automated facility that will take in unsorted garbage and reduce the volume of trash headed to the landfill by half by removing recyclables and organic matter.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.