trash can

Example Sentences

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Along with "burner" phones from the US delegation, the confiscated items were tossed in a trash can at the bottom of the stairs of the presidential jet.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Poer likes to joke that he has to get rid of Quillian’s things when he isn’t looking or “he would climb into the trash can and pull things back out.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

“I’d never been a human trash can before.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

But she seems open to hearing more as she stands there, one hand still resting on her trash can.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

After breakfast, while Dicey gathered together their litter and packed it into the paper bag to be discarded at the first trash can they saw, the little ones explored the graveyard.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt