How to Use compost in a Sentence

compost

1 of 2 noun

• Do not add to the compost pile.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
• Or place them in a compost bin.
  — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2025
• The city gives away compost soil.
  — Erin Schwartz, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2025
• Or at least add them to a compost pile.
  — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2025
• Throw the peel in your compost pile.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Dec. 2025
• Don't add them to the compost pile!
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
• Don’t place these items in your compost bin.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
• Use them for mulch, compost, and more.
  — Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 15 May 2026
• Do not place the plant in the trash or a compost bin.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 31 May 2026
• Don't add it to the compost pile; toss it in the trash.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
• Healthy plants can be chopped up and added to the compost pile.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
• Don’t add the plant to the compost pile; toss it in the trash.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 8 May 2026
• Add the compost and dig it into the soil.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025
• Add more compost if needed to top it off.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
• If your plant is dead it can be put into your compost pile.
  — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 11 Feb. 2026
• Add some compost to the hole and dig it into the soil.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026
• Also keep it far away from trash and compost bins.
  — Aviva Patz, Martha Stewart, 6 June 2026
• Your real tree can have a new life as compost and mulch.
  — Tracy Trobridge, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026
• Don’t give up and toss your plant into the compost pile.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2026
• Secure the lids of your trash and compost bins.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• Water and turn your compost pile one last time.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2025
• The ones in the stores are grown on sawdust blocks or in compost.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• Add the potting soil to your compost pile.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
• The compost is free for the taking.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
• Algae will just break down and be a kind of compost for the plants.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2025
• Kids can learn how their food waste can break down into rich compost.
  — Stacy Tornio, Treehugger, 18 Apr. 2023
• Never add meat, fish, dairy, fat or oils to compost.
  — Jessica Damiano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• Mix in compost when planting and make sure the soil drains well.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
• Adding the seed pods to a compost pile may cause more vines to appear.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
• Plus find out the best ways to use blender compost in your garden.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025

compost

2 of 2 verb

• We compost leaves in our backyard.
• Toss them into the trash, don't compost them.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Dec. 2025
• After 4 hours, aim to compost or toss the rest.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2026
• The city picks up the bags and composts them along with other ground up yard waste.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Oct. 2025
• The first pit is filled and the waste is treated for composting.
  — NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
• Then haul a layer of topsoil or compost to spread about an inch or two thick on top.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
• For these picks, our pros composted in their own kitchens to best replicate home use.
  — Sarah Wharton, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2023
• Check out our guides on sustainable living and how to compost for more.
  — Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2022
• Aren’t buildings required to compost by law?
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 21 Jan. 2026
• Your plant isn’t going to recover this year, so compost it and buy a new one!
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2022
• The dry composting method will be familiar to those with off-grid homes.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Compost helps keep moisture in your soil but compost piles are hard to fit in small spaces.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• Does compost work like topsoil for filling in where erosion has washed too much soil away?
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Aerate your lawn and add compost two weeks before the shutdown.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
• Not all composting programs accept the same types of food waste.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
• Just be sure to keep the biochar and compost a few inches away from the plant stems to avoid issues with rot.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2026
• What old stories around scarcity are ready to be composted?
  — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 16 Nov. 2025
• Food and landscape waste is composted.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
• To date, the team has composted around 7,000 pounds of food waste.
  — Carlton Gillespie, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
• Learn more about composting using worms.
  — Sarah Z. Sleeper, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026
• The more it is composted before use, the better.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Mar. 2026
• Older tea leaves can be used in composting for plants or as natural dyes.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 May 2026
• Coffee and tea drinkers can also compost their coffee filters, grounds and tea bags.
  — Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
• The bag is sturdy and odorless, so there’s no need to worry about any worms or compost seeping out.
  — Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2022
• They can be washed around 50 times or more and can be composted afterward.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 29 Aug. 2023
• They’re usually found in woods, parks, or compost piles, but can also be found in backyards, too.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Apr. 2022
• As the state closes in on a deadline to require cities to divert more waste to compost, change doesn’t come cheap.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2022
• Do not compost infected plants.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
• Of course, old fabric scraps can often simply be added to a composting system.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 3 Apr. 2023