trashcan

Example Sentences

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A helicopter spotter eventually saw Paredes jumping into a plastic trashcan.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

We don’t carry a personal device with us — it’s in our cars, at our bus stops, in every public trashcan and streetlight.

From The Verge • Nov. 1, 2021

Remember when the Astros hit a trashcan before every pitch for two years and nobody noticed.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2020

Now that I’ve read that, I definitely understand the raison d’être for this little trashcan orchid pot bag.

From Slate • May 3, 2019

Then I stash my new postcard underneath the trashcan.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller