uncollected

Example Sentences

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Images of uncollected garbage rotting on Havana’s streets have been broadcast across the globe.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

In Castle Vale, one of the biggest housing estates in Birmingham, there is little if any uncollected rubbish, with the authority managing to empty out the wheelie bins over the holiday period.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

In the previously uncollected poems we find Heaney working out forms, responding to social occasions, sometimes fumbling or biding his time but always doing the digging with his pen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The American Red Cross reported that due to the cancellation of blood drives, more than 2,500 blood donations went uncollected in western North Carolina.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

It has found me here on this island, in our little town, in a back alley where sleek boys smoke in a stairwell amidst the day’s uncollected refuse.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver