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
He bent down, picked up a straw wrapper and disposed of it in the nearest trash can, then kept walking.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
“I’d never been a human trash can before.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026
Out of a Kia sedan emerged a man who carried a bag of trash over to a trash can, rubbed his eyes, and drove off.
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026
An overturned trash can would not be surprising.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
