How to Use dumpster fire in a Sentence

dumpster fire

noun
  • Ohio State is a dumpster fire, but this isn’t one of the better Fran McCaffery teams.
    Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • All of which served as excellent distractions from the dumpster fire that is life on Earth in 2023.
    Amy Phillips, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The shows are a dumpster fire of rivalries and resentments with a rabid fan base.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Speaking of red, send fire engines to extinguish the dumpster fire that ...
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 June 2024
  • In fact, fans following the dumpster fire can now commemorate the ordeal with merch.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
  • While the rest of the world was dealing with the dumpster fire and Zoom fatigue brought on by 2020, Taylor got to work on some new music, pulling out all the creative stops to rocket her net worth even higher.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Since then, the football team left town and has been a virtually continuous dumpster fire, yet all anyone around here seems to pine for is the glory days of the R*$%@!*s.
    Teo Armus, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In a nod to the show’s title, the former governor of California walks away from a literal dumpster fire in the first trailer.
    Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But now, Twitter feels like an absolute rotten fish dumpster fire.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • Roads remained choked with traffic, and the city’s poorer residents resorted to dumpster fires, burning scraps of wood, rubber, and plastic to stay warm.
    WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Whose career never immolated in a dumpster fire of corruption or ego like that of too many of her Eastside colleagues.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The fallout of the assertion about Meek, and his ensuing response, became a quintessential X dumpster fire, where quote posts and memes flew at a feverish pace by people trying to go viral.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • These entities position themselves as middlemen between us and, in doing so, make a dumpster fire of the internet.
    Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Witnesses first called 911 reporting a dumpster fire, FDNY officials said.
    Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 13 May 2024

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