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!
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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 -
Well, maybe the new, grainy car picture will put all this rubbish to bed.
— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024 -
In terms of someone not being able to study (the prints) now, that's rubbish.
— Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017 -
Even his last album, the two singles were good but the rest of it was rubbish.
— Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018 -
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 -
The meal is rubbish; the house isn’t clean enough or the table isn’t set properly.
— Laurène Daycard, Marie Claire, 10 Mar. 2018 -
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 -
Like the mix of treasures and rubbish Buntport purchased, the show’s ideas are strewn throughout the 75-minute piece.
— Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 24 May 2017 -
Video from the scene showed the battered truck afterwards, with rubbish strewn around it.
— Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018 -
This idea that age blesses you with some kind of knowledge is rubbish.
— Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Apr. 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 -
Sohn remembered the first time rode on an engine ... to put out a rubbish fire.
— Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 17 Mar. 2018 -
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 -
There’s only one truth, but when Netflix says this is a true story, that’s rubbish.
— Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024 -
Billig says her airline, like most, requires flight attendants to routinely pass through the cabin to collect rubbish.
— Bobby Laurie, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2023
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