Example sentences for: garbage

How can you use “garbage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As soldiers finally appeared in force Saturday, picking up garbage in an effort to stem the spread of disease, President Suleyman Demirel told Turks he understood their concerns over the low profile the army has taken thus far, but also cautioned citizens not to expect state forces to "work miracles."

  • Songs that I hoped never to hear again--"Hold Your Head Up," "Take It Easy," "Band on the Run," "Free Bird"--sound, in context, startlingly fresh, and Dunph's brown corduroy jacket looks like the one I persisted in wearing into the late '80s when a girlfriend finally took the initiative to drop it down a garbage chute.

  • A relief to turn from these pictures, which seem to prefigure our own sexually anxious age, to such comical dreams of resurrection as Spencer's exuberant The Dustman (1934), in which the Cookham garbage man has returned from the dead and is cradled like a baby in his wife's arms, while neighborhood children offer gifts of empty cans and other trash.

  • Americans will quickly learn to separate reliable online journalism from garbage.

  • And these are still extremely poor countries, where living on a garbage heap is attractive compared with the alternatives.


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