How to Use rubbish in a Sentence

rubbish

noun

• Please, pick the rubbish up off the ground.
• The food at that restaurant is complete rubbish.
• I think what he says is absolute rubbish!
• And much of all the rubbish even ends up in our streets and parks.
  — Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Most of the debris ended up in stacks of rubbish to be thrown away.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
• Certainly many parents just want to throw the phone in the rubbish and make kids go play in the woods.
  — Fortune, 8 May 2018
• When the first part of the novel came out, in 1605, it was derided as rubbish by the Madrid elite.
  — Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• City Hall said that as of Monday, 9,300 tons of rubbish remained on the streets.
  — Elaine Ganley, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
• And a little bit of New rubbish that’ll get heard once and once only.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 7 July 2023
• The city has been collecting its rubbish fee for more than a decade.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The couple, picking through a wide swath of rubbish, said there aren’t as many trash bags on the beach, but there are a lot of masks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• AC Milan have had a rubbish start to the season - and their starts to games aren't much better.
  — SI.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• Most of the calls are related to fights, human waste in the street and rubbish and trash left outside.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• Officers arrived to find rubbish in the road in front of the address.
  — cleveland, 4 Jan. 2022
• Video from the scene showed the battered truck afterwards, with rubbish strewn around it.
  — Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• The team set up arm farms and playpens, where a fleet of robots for months would repeat the same task—like sorting rubbish.
  — WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
• In the old days, this spot was a quarry and then a kind of neighborhood dump, with rubbish and household junk.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2021
• And a tale-teller was a servant hired to put people to sleep by talking a load of rubbish to them.
  — Ali Smith, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• After each rally people come to collect all the rubbish and clean up the streets.
  — The Economist, 26 Aug. 2020
• As the trailer begins, a vast expanse of rubbish litters the frame.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 17 Sep. 2022
• Just as the conclave began, Glasgow’s garbage workers went on strike, and rubbish piled up in the streets.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2021
• His house had been ransacked, filled with rubbish and beer bottles.
  — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
• There was no litter, no rubbish of any kind except what the cows left behind.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 2 Oct. 2019
• Fire investigators list burning rubbish on the rear porch as the cause of the fire.
  — Cecilia Reyes, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• They were tasked with picking up rubbish that spanned a handful of city blocks clustered in the Lloyd Center area.
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2021
• Teams took advantage of the helicopters to bring down 412 pounds of rubbish.
  — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2019
• The rubbish is sold to recycling plants and the homeowners get points, which can be turned into cash.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• This eclectic pile of rubbish came from just one (!) small beach in southwest England.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 11 May 2018
• Each piece that is modified becomes useful again and won’t end up in a pile of rubbish.
  — Brendan Nystedt, Wired, 10 June 2020
• Atop one of the campus' entrances, there was a noticeable stench of smoldering rubbish and petrol that burned the nose.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 19 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024