Example sentences for: rubbish

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

  • His relationship with the renowned traveler had ended in some acrimony after just eight hours, during which time Sixpence had managed to consign the whole of her insect collection (painstakingly accumulated for the British Museum) to the bonfire which he had lit in the compound outside her chalet for the express purpose of burning the rubbish from within it.

  • The result is that quality and art of expression continue to deteriorate, and we are left with performers who spend five or ten minutes to deliver a three-minute weather report on television, housewives and househusbands who delight in revealing intimate, revolting, and highly suspect details of their childhood on national television, and channels devoted entirely to charlatans perpetrating psychic rubbish.

  • "Like I should have done with that Jay McInerney rubbish," he did not add.

  • The categorizing of urban areas into strata reflects a compilation of ecological factors such as the topographical slope and drainage facilities in the area, the condition of roads, the state of drains and sewerage systems, rubbish collection and other factors.

  • That is patent rubbish, of course, for it can easily be demonstrated that written language cannot be ignored for a variety of reasons: the more formalized versions of language that are reflected there, the relatively complex constructions that are accepted as normal to writing but would be difficult to construct viva voce and difficult to assimilate unless read, the preservation of fossilized forms--both words and grammar--made possible by written records, and so on.


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