Examples of garbage in a Sentence

The park was littered with garbage. Please take out the garbage. Raccoons were going through the garbage. Throw the can in the garbage. If you ask me, what he said is a bunch of garbage.

Recent Examples on the Web And there’s also $1 billion for communities to invest in clean versions of heavy-duty vehicles like buses and garbage trucks. — Van Jones, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022 The city government is building new schools, roads and parks, funding jobs programs and sending garbage trucks through the hilly streets. — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 29 July 2022 This is an exciting mix of clean vehicles and related technologies: trucks of all classes, buses, forklifts, logistics vehicles, garbage trucks, trailers, alternative fuels, and relevant part suppliers. — David Blekhman, Forbes, 6 May 2022 Clearing the area would require removing 100 garbage trucks’ worth of trash by hand over a grueling two-year period. — Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2022 Rob Nikolewski also wrote about the growing electric truck business, including garbage trucks. — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022 This year, New York City plans to purchase another 1,084 all-electric vehicles, including 148 Ford Mustang Mach-E police patrol cars and seven more electric Mack garbage trucks. — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022 Major cities like Detroit and New York donated firetrucks and garbage trucks. — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2022 Starting as soon as next week the city of Cincinnati is launching a plan for a greener fleet – police cars, fire engines and garbage trucks included. — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for garbage

Middle English, "poultry organs and body parts used for food, poultry refuse," borrowed from Anglo-French *garbage (implied in sergant garbagere "kitchen servant tasked with plucking and cleaning poultry"), of obscure origin

Note: On morphological, semantic, or chronological grounds unlikely to be related to Anglo-French garbeler, Middle English garbelen "to remove (impurities) from spices" (see garble entry 1) or to Middle French gaburge, grabuge "quarrel, brawl." The Anglo-French collocation sergant garbagere indicates currency of the word as early as 1318 (Household Ordinances of Edward II).

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