How to Use trash in a Sentence

trash

1 of 2 noun

• Take out the trash, please.
• I put the dirty diaper in the trash.
• She thinks that they're all trash.
• I can't believe you're reading that trash.
• Once the trap is filled with fruit flies or the bait has run out, toss the trap in the trash.
  — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• There was like, a trash bag on the side [to cover the letter ‘w’].
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2023
• At the very least, shred them before throwing them in the trash.
  — David Rae, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• The smell of burning trash often wafts over the village.
  — Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Photos and videos shared by the BBC show a bear on the deck of a home, as well as three bears on a trash heap.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
• Junk can be seen in the front and back yards of the home, with most of it being inside white trash bags.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2024
• There’s not a shred of trash anywhere, like from a normal show.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• Any trash needs to be taken out of the house in your car, using your own trash bags.
  — Julia Young, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
• And not just a survey that your big boss is going to turn around and throw in trash.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
• There are a few ways to tell if your chicken should be tossed in the trash rather than eaten.
  — Woman's Day, 15 Mar. 2023
• The flex liner bags can easily be washed and reused or tossed away in the trash.
  — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
• That means anything made with LDPE (like toothpaste tubes) can be thrown in the trash.
  — Brian Clark Howard, Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2023
• Take a walk along the shore, armed with gloves and trash bags, to gather garbage as a family.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
• Two hours into the smelly search, the team happened upon the woman's trash bag.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Club América fans also threw trash on the field against the Chicago Fire in their Round of 32 win.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• So on a child’s day, they are required to empty the dishwasher, take out the trash, feed the dog, etc.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
• The students fled, with one reporting that the men grabbed two laptops and threw them on the floor and into the trash.
  — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Simply press the button on the handle to empty it out into the trash.
  — Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• Bag and seal all the plant parts in a plastic bag and trash — do not compost or greenwaste — those plants.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• Saylor pulled trash bags over her Carhartt waterproof boots to be able to slide through it.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• Perez and his family filled large black trash bags with toys, blankets and shoes that were ruined in the floods.
  — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
• In the Ivory Coast, entrepreneurs are recycling trash to make what type of new product?
  — CNN, 26 Oct. 2023
• These trash cans hold around 12 gallons of trash and can fit standard 13-gallon trash bags.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Apr. 2024
• The village is seeking volunteers to clean up trash, help mulch young trees and get parks and grounds ready for spring.
  — Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• The men had taken the students to a trash dump near the town of Cocula, Murillo said, and killed those who weren’t already dead.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Who hasn’t dashed out to get the mail or take out the trash and, in a rush, not stopped to take off their house slippers before stepping outside?
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2023

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trash

2 of 2 verb

• The apartment had been trashed.
• The vacuum cleaner couldn't be fixed, so I trashed it.
• He says that the government's policies are trashing the environment.
• There were no bedsheets on the beds, and the kitchen was trashed.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
• The room at the Sage and Sand Motel, as it was known at the time, was trashed.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• But if the food still won’t budge, now’s the time to call it quits, trash the pan, and buy a new one.
  — Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 12 Oct. 2022
• If the values of a free society get in the way, trash them.
  — Ali Soufan, Time, 11 Sep. 2021
• Someone nuts just had the guts to try to trash you With a hammer and a large amount of cake.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• The movie got trashed by many people, predictably, but some of us loved it.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
• Their food and equipment were now fair game to impound and trash.
  — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• Which is people trash talking and the challenges around it.
  — Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Tommy, as he’s called, is able to trash a pub and rise through the ranks of Parliament.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 10 June 2022
• But after the haircut, it would be swept up, trashed and dumped in a landfill.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• The greatest gift, however, was his access to trash bins on the lot.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
• Many of the tombstones in the historic cemetery bear dates from the 1800s, but now many are broken, tipped over and trashed.
  — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• People burned leaves in the fall, bacon in the pan, trash in a pit, and love letters from boyfriends in the school parking lot.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 9 Feb. 2022
• Halloween is over, but don’t trash your jack-o’-lantern — compost it.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• The Russians who occupied the building threw trash out the windows, which landed on top of the corpses.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• Freestyle consists of a truck trashing as much of the dirt crew’s work as possible, in the span of two minutes.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Please stop trashing her to your other friends, though, for a few reasons.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Now, after a 138-day growth cycle, the astronauts remove the plants from the module and trash them.
  — Melanie Canales, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
• At least one of the armed settlers burst through the front door, trashing the sunroom and breaking windows.
  — Isabel Debre, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
• For your downtime Going out 🌸 Glue beads to trash, talk about your feelings.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• In addition to trash cans, look out for twigs, branches — and even downed power lines.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2021
• The handbook urges Ukrainians to block roads with anything available, from dump trucks to trash, and never to sit around.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
• Officers have found front doors busted open as well as garage doors ripped down and trash cans mauled.
  — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Sep. 2021
• Butler: The Bulldogs will want to trash this game film and try and make a quick recovery with three more games over the next seven days.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 16 Jan. 2022
• Also trashed were the building’s HVAC and sprinkler systems.
  — Lisa Rathke, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• Adding ammonia to trash cans and bags will reduce odors that attract bears.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2022
• The future of Yeezys Although the line has been shelved, trashing existing products was a step too far.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024