raffle

noun

Definition of rafflenext
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 At a time when many people are trying to choose between traveling or saving for a house, the couple is offering raffle entrants a chance to do both. — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026 Later, guests were treated to a raffle that included the giveaway of Swift and Kelce’s first date car. — Meg Walters, InStyle, 21 July 2026 As the story goes, Yamal’s parents won a charity raffle run by UNICEF and a Spanish newspaper. — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 18 July 2026 Yamal’s family won a raffle to participate in the photoshoot, resulting in the iconic image. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for raffle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raffle
  1. garbage
  2. debris
  3. truck
  4. trash
  5. junk
  6. rubbish
  7. dust
Noun
  • Take down bird feeders, empty water features, add fencing or other wildlife barriers, and prevent access to garbage bins.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 22 July 2026
  • This buildup occurs substantially in the brain, like garbage piling up when the trash collectors stop coming.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of garbage
Noun
  • Launch safety, orbital debris, broadband access, AI model conduct, content moderation, data use and energy consumption belong to different industry materiality maps.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • The 108-foot-long (33-meter-long) barge was loaded with construction debris, bringing its total weight to about 149 gross tons.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of debris
Noun
  • Someone who saw the shooting told Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV that two trucks were stopped at a traffic light, and a person in one of the vehicles shot a man in the other.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2026
  • The pickup veered off the roadway while the Amazon truck blocked the westbound lanes.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of truck
Noun
  • Namely, a black trash bag with DNA from four people, including d4vd.
    — Jason Kravarik, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • In fact, the over 50 different existing date variations can be quite confusing and have led to a lot of perfectly good food ending up in the trash.
    — LeeAnn Weintraub, Oc Register, 25 July 2026
Definition of trash
Noun
  • Low interest rates let venture capitalists fund nonsense web businesses and let banks provide junk loans to borrowers with terrible credit.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
  • The crash could reveal new information about what happens in the immediate aftermath of an impact on the lunar surface and offer insights into the hazards of errant space junk to the moon.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 20 July 2026
Definition of junk
Noun
  • Only construction waste will be accepted at the landfill such as, brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2026
  • So where does the rubbish come from?
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
Definition of rubbish
Noun
  • The nova also spawned a thick disc of dust that completely obscured the binary star system.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 July 2026
  • William Burgos and Nathaniel Warner, professors of environmental engineering at Penn State, have spent years testing whether oil and gas brine actually works as a road dust suppressant.
    — Nathaniel Warner, The Conversation, 24 July 2026
Definition of dust

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“Raffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raffle. Accessed 29 Jul. 2026.

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