How to Use garbage in a Sentence

garbage

noun
  • Throw the can in the garbage.
  • Please take out the garbage.
  • The park was littered with garbage.
  • If you ask me, what he said is a bunch of garbage.
  • Raccoons were going through the garbage.
  • Keeping a basket that contains supplies like paper towels and garbage bags makes cleanup fast and easy.
    Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Without accurate data, companies face the garbage in, garbage out problem.
    Steve Banker, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • And yes, there was drought residue and silt and garbage.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • She was shot twice in the head and her body was dumped on a pile of garbage.
    Charlie Savage, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • The sweat matched the DNA on the cut zip tie found in a garbage bag in back of Kyle’s house.
    Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Street crews raced to pick up the garbage before the wind could.
    John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • In the parking lot, a big black bird tore at a garbage bag.
    Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
  • At the Bethany Church, there is not a single garbage bin.
    Munza Mushtaq, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2023
  • And there’s been a rise of SEO-bait garbage that surfaces first.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 12 May 2023
  • Or the stench of the garbage sticks around, even after the trash can has been emptied.
    Lindsey M. Roberts, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • This one has an elastic lid to keep the garbage inside the can.
    Jon Langston, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 2023
  • All parts of the plant must be bagged up and disposed of properly in the garbage.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Use plastic hangers, black garbage bags, and faux fur to make the bats.
    Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
  • As soon as the weather gets warm, the smell of garbage is merciless.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Putting words to the thoughts might have summoned the psychic garbagemen to clear the garbage out of my brain.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • New York City has its own share of faults (beyond the rats and street garbage problem).
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The game helped inspires some details, right down to the amount of garbage that would be strewn across the wasteland.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Police said the home was layered in filth, trash was piled in the kitchen, and the living room was filled with garbage.
    Chris Ramirez, USA TODAY, 20 July 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
  • All the same, Shaw said the city still wants people to put their garbage in bags before tossing them in the carts.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Adnan rescued the tall brass floor lamp in his dining nook from the garbage.
    Sarah Lyon, Architectural Digest, 20 Sep. 2024
  • There are reasons for hope in the fight against garbage and waste — and no, recycling is not one of them.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The best solution is to pull it from the ground and place it into heavy-duty garbage bags.
    Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
  • There's even a hook to hang a garbage bag and a paper towel roll holder.
    Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2024
  • The year is 1980-something, and Manhattan’s streets simmer with risk and the stench of days-old garbage.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 May 2024

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