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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of trash
Noun
The yearly amount of $528 is a fee for trash pickup, not a tax. U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025 Moore said her plan for the funding includes providing resources such as some type of shelter, a bathroom and shower facility, 24/7 staffing, insurance, food and trash disposal. Grace Hurt, Arkansas Online, 18 June 2025
Verb
Even if the spill is minor and the helmet looks and feels perfectly fine, trash it and get a new one. Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Wired News, 8 June 2025 The country as the shining light of democracy has been trashed by the administration. Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for trash
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trash
Noun
  • In the first images of Read since her second trial, Fox News Digital exclusively captured the 45-year-old wheeling a garbage bin outside her Boston hotel.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
  • Seal garbage tightly in bags, and rinse out bottles and cans before placing in recycling bins.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • And oftentimes, these cheap items end up as rubbish.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
  • This never got past the drawing board stage, but the idea kept cropping up again and again with many variations on a circular shape and performance that spanned from interesting to rubbish.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Skip the junk drawer and move tools, lightbulbs, and hardware to a utility space or toolbox.
    Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 17 June 2025
  • However, just like an overstuffed junk drawer or the back of a pantry, your hosting essentials closet isn’t immune to clutter.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • In a May 2, 2017 text, Ventura was clear with Khorram that Combs allegedly attacked her.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
  • Even after December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked some of the territories that McKinley had claimed—Hawaii, the Philippines, and Guam—people from Kansas or California didn’t necessarily see any reason to don uniforms.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • Indeterminate numbers of casualties have occurred in both Iran and Israel, though Israel's intentions to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities may require U.S. artillery aid in the form of multi-ton bunker buster bombs.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • To destroy the site, an attack would have to come in waves, with bombers releasing one after another down the same hole.
    Samuel Granados, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • Kiser's attorneys also filed a notice to dismiss some agencies from the lawsuit, and the court sealed a declaration Kiser wrote about this case.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 18 June 2025
  • Operation Ajax, a joint CIA-British operation, convinced the Shah of Iran, the country’s monarch, to dismiss Mossadegh and drive him from office by force.
    Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • According to Dominguez, Smith physically assaulted Turner and pulled out some of her hair.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 26 June 2025
  • Rihanna's has been candid about her relationship with her father over the years, and spoke out against her father after she was assaulted by her then-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009 and Fenty reportedly spoke to the press about the incident without his daughter's consent.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Chavez's action on that night left the crowd at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, showering the ring with debris.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • After 9/11, undocumented immigrants were tasked with cleaning up the debris of the World Trade Center, as Karla Cornejo Villavicencio showed in her book The Undocumented Americans.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025

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