as in garbage
discarded or useless material
the front lawn was littered with the raffle that the roofers had left behind
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Recent Examples of raffle
There were also donations and raffles to raise money to assist her and her family.
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Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
The 50/50 raffle took in $44,890, according to the Islander's website.
—CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
The service organizations that run meat raffles and other charitable gambling in Minnesota put the proceeds back into their communities.
—ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
Devised by French television personality and producer Péri Cochin, the raffle typically draws ticket buyers from all over the world.
—News Desk, Artforum, 15 Apr. 2026
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Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
The 50/50 raffle took in $44,890, according to the Islander's website.
—CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
The service organizations that run meat raffles and other charitable gambling in Minnesota put the proceeds back into their communities.
—ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
Devised by French television personality and producer Péri Cochin, the raffle typically draws ticket buyers from all over the world.
—News Desk, Artforum, 15 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for raffle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raffle
Noun
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Lehkonen is a crease-crasher, a garbage collector and a pest, a greasy goal waiting to happen.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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Wash them regularly to remove sugary or syrupy residues from garbage such as soda or fruit juices, which attract foraging bees.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Drone debris also fell on a roof of a residential building in the city of Samara, wounding a number of people, Fedorishchev said.—
Hanna Arhirova,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Do not burn debris or other items during an air quality alert.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The occasional roars of delivery trucks and motorcycles that used our alleys to get around the traffic of the main roads, to cut through the city.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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These include blending hydrogen with natural gas for use in pipelines, powering heavy-duty trucks, and using hydrogen in industrial boilers.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Colorado emergency responders closed the westbound lanes of Interstate 76 on Friday morning after a fatal crash the Colorado State Patrol said involved a trash truck and a pedestrian.—
Jesse Sarles,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Another 10 gathered on plastic trash and one was on an unused steam table.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Having junk hauled away costs money.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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For me, Storage Wars was an addiction and Darrell was the loveable loser who was always looking for that $40 bill in a pile of junk.—
Joe Kinsey OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Mulhouse Public Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz speaks to the press after a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Stony rubbish, dead trees, the odd corpse in the garden—nothing that couldn’t be absorbed back into the earth.—
Caroline Fraser,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The dust will take about three weeks to settle.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Scientists identified plant traces by sequencing microscopic DNA fragments found in dust and fibers collected from the Shroud, rather than discovering visible food remains.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Raffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raffle. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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