trashing

Example Sentences

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Even Scott Jennings, the foul-mouthed Kentuckian with a habit of picking Derby losers and rumored to occasionally sip Tennessee whiskey instead of Kentucky bourbon, has been caught trashing the president — off camera.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

"Scientists trashing each other in the media is not constructive."

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

"He hated that, you know, people were just trashing the land," Susan Pretti told AP.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

And there is the wholesale trashing of the editorial staffers of the real-life Condé Nast, here a gaggle of privileged narcissists who are accidentally infected, quarantined and treated like human garbage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

The storm raged for two nights, trashing the coastline, tearing away anything that wasn’t tied down.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi