trash barrel
Example Sentences
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But as we glide upward, we spot a trash barrel right beneath us.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2016
As the afternoon drags on, and we wait for the OK to be able to leave our homes again, the trash barrel remains on the sidewalk, waiting to be picked up.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2013
"If I was making the money they're making, I'd put a trash barrel over my head."
From Newsweek ● May 25, 2010
Late on Friday night, a group of soldiers stood around a fire in a trash barrel at the guard station, at the rear of their barracks, smoking and discussing why they were in Iraq.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2010
They rattle down the long gravel lanes, past pit cottages and trash barrel fires, past laid-off miners squatting all day on upturned crates, motionless as statues.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
