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 composting leaves means less going to the garbage dump.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2024
• Generic garbage with weird phrases and a robotic structure.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The sweat matched the DNA on the cut zip tie found in a garbage bag in back of Kyle’s house.
  — Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2022
• Street crews raced to pick up the garbage before the wind could.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• In the parking lot, a big black bird tore at a garbage bag.
  — Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
• At the Bethany Church, there is not a single garbage bin.
  — Munza Mushtaq, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2023
• And there’s been a rise of SEO-bait garbage that surfaces first.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 12 May 2023
• Or the stench of the garbage sticks around, even after the trash can has been emptied.
  — Lindsey M. Roberts, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• This one has an elastic lid to keep the garbage inside the can.
  — Jon Langston, Car and Driver, 3 Jan. 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
• There were no trash cans on the streets, so William would hang a black garbage bag from the bars of the store’s windows.
  — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• As soon as the weather gets warm, the smell of garbage is merciless.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Putting words to the thoughts might have summoned the psychic garbagemen to clear the garbage out of my brain.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• To yank out a garbage bag full of clothes is to nearly send his old Hot Wheels rolling.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 11 Dec. 2022
• Bears have also learned that our garbage can be a tasty food source.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
• New York City has its own share of faults (beyond the rats and street garbage problem).
  — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• The game helped inspires some details, right down to the amount of garbage that would be strewn across the wasteland.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 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
• Her body had been placed inside a garbage bag and buried in a shallow grave.
  — Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Adnan rescued the tall brass floor lamp in his dining nook from the garbage.
  — Sarah Lyon, Architectural Digest, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024