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.
• Io slapped him in the face and ran away, through the garbage.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• And yes, there was drought residue and silt and garbage.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• One of the biggest threats is garbage left on the beach.
  — Michael George, CBS News, 22 July 2022
• 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
• She had been bound and her body wrapped in a garbage bag.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 30 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Pelosi did not have the votes in her party to pass this garbage.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
• At the Bethany Church, there is not a single garbage bin.
  — Munza Mushtaq, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2023
• Ohio State may not need have any more garbage snaps to fill.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2021
• And there’s been a rise of SEO-bait garbage that surfaces first.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 12 May 2023
• And just as the price of new and used cars has increased, so too has the price of garbage trucks.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2021
• 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
• The driver crossed the center line of the road and struck a garbage truck head-on, the statement said.
  — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• There’s a lot of garbage in The Couple Next Door and by the fourth and fifth episodes, the garbage is steering the garbage truck.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
• People have a right to streets free from garbage piles, and justice in the courts.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 30 July 2025
• All parts of the plant must be bagged up and disposed of properly in the garbage.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Now that street is strewn with garbage and overgrown trees.
  — Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
• Her body was found wrapped in blankets and garbage bags in the bed of a second-story room.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
• This is a big reason for the ongoing money grabs such as the garbage fees and Balboa Park parking fees.
  — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
• Into the garbage went one man’s Bible, eyeglasses, clothes and photos of his sister and the mom who adopted him.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
• Investigators said her body had been wrapped in blankets and placed inside garbage bags.
  — Sergio Candido, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
• The area included in Wednesday’s cleanup is near an alley that the trash truck comes through, so garbage will fly out and into the park.
  — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026