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
• 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
• They can be seen approaching a dumpster, piled high with trash, and then pulling a newborn out of the rubbish.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
• At that time in the city, there were only a few options for disposing of a deceased pet’s body: throw it into the River Thames, toss it out with the rubbish or take it to a rendering plant to be turned into glue or fertilizer.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024