Examples of garbageman in a Sentence
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Teachers are not garbagemen or accountants, charged with discrete, concrete duties.
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Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 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
An arriving officer was unable to locate the amateur garbageman.
—John Benson, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
Opening on Broadway in 1987, the play ran for more than a year, starring James Earl Jones as her husband, Troy, a bitter garbageman who played Negro League baseball before serving time in prison.
—Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
In Granite City – a fictional rundown metropolis a la Batman's Gotham – teen Sam (Javon Walton) is saved from a beatdown by neighbor Joe (Stallone), a garbageman with apparent superpowers.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
Joe, a garbageman, shuffles around the dangerous, run-down urban environs sporting a heavy grey beard and perpetual hoodie, clearly not wanting to be bothered by anyone.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022
Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 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
An arriving officer was unable to locate the amateur garbageman.
—John Benson, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
Opening on Broadway in 1987, the play ran for more than a year, starring James Earl Jones as her husband, Troy, a bitter garbageman who played Negro League baseball before serving time in prison.
—Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
In Granite City – a fictional rundown metropolis a la Batman's Gotham – teen Sam (Javon Walton) is saved from a beatdown by neighbor Joe (Stallone), a garbageman with apparent superpowers.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2022
Joe, a garbageman, shuffles around the dangerous, run-down urban environs sporting a heavy grey beard and perpetual hoodie, clearly not wanting to be bothered by anyone.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022
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garbageman
noun
gar·bage·man
ˈgär-bij-ˌman 
: a person who collects and hauls away garbage
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