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.
• And yes, there was drought residue and silt and garbage.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• 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
• And there’s been a rise of SEO-bait garbage that surfaces first.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 12 May 2023
• All parts of the plant must be bagged up and disposed of properly in the garbage.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Use plastic hangers, black garbage bags, and faux fur to make the bats.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
• As soon as the weather gets warm, the smell of garbage is merciless.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• New York City has its own share of faults (beyond the rats and street garbage problem).
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• Police said the home was layered in filth, trash was piled in the kitchen, and the living room was filled with garbage.
  — Chris Ramirez, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Take a walk along the shore, armed with gloves and trash bags, to gather garbage as a family.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
• All the same, Shaw said the city still wants people to put their garbage in bags before tossing them in the carts.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
• The best solution is to pull it from the ground and place it into heavy-duty garbage bags.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
• Therefore, sorting my garbage is a waste of time and ridiculous.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• Leaving it on the curb for the garbage collector to pick up and most likely dump in a landfill.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Workers in reflective vests eyed the ground for garbage.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
• Strikes brought trains to a halt as walkouts by trash collectors leave heaps of garbage to pile up on the streets of Paris.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Reach for this dustpan while sweeping up small amounts of debris and garbage.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 3 May 2023
• The male and female hurried behind the sales counter pushed merchandise off a shelf and into the garbage bags.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2023
• The only change is that city workers have started to remove garbage that piled high for months.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2023
• Here, pull the drawer open a little bit first, exposing a hook holding the pull tabs of the garbage bag inside.
  — Condé Nast, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
• One area that will be affected by the heat is garbage collection.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
• If not consumed, officials said they should be double bagged and placed in a garbage bin.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Friends of the Parks will provide some garbage bags and gloves, but volunteers are encouraged to bring their own.
  — Olivia Alexander, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
• Walk the shores of the Patapsco River and gather up garbage, floatsam and debris.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2023
• The criminal complaint said human waste was on the walls and there was so much garbage piled up, officers couldn’t see the floor.
  — Andy Rose, CNN, 20 July 2023
• Feds fined a ship company $2 million for dumping oil and garbage into ocean off the U.S. coast.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024