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After sliding down a Brooklyn building’s garbage chute at age 9 to retrieve a superintendent’s keys, his foot caught in the trash compactor and was left hanging by only a tendon.—
Julian Roberts-Grmela,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2026 Sitting there is a 10-ton trash compactor that handled everything that the team threw out.—
Carlton Gillespie,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026 When an apartment manager gave investigators access to the apartment, and to Limon's locked bedroom, the third roommate told detectives Abugharbieh had used a cart overnight on April 16 to move cardboard boxes from his room to the trash compactor.—CBS News,
8 May 2026 Inside the trash compactor, detectives found pots and pans, Limon’s wallet and glasses and Bristy’s pink iPhone case.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trash compactor