1
a
: food waste
b
: discarded or useless material
2
a
b
: inaccurate or useless data
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Examples of garbage in a Sentence
The park was littered with garbage.
Please take out the garbage.
Raccoons were going through the garbage.
Throw the can in the garbage.
If you ask me, what he said is a bunch of garbage.
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In Dolton, residents can’t even be sure their garbage will be collected.
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
During another sale, an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle was placed in a garbage bag and sold in the middle of the afternoon in the Bronx.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
The size of the refunds announced Monday by the city provided insight into how much money goes into the largely unnoticed world of recycling and garbage contracts, which first granted the Duong family significant power and influence in Bay Area politics in the 1990s.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
Sarvis watched electric cars explode and garbage bins tip over, fill with flames, and blow down the streets like missiles.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
During another sale, an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle was placed in a garbage bag and sold in the middle of the afternoon in the Bronx.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
The size of the refunds announced Monday by the city provided insight into how much money goes into the largely unnoticed world of recycling and garbage contracts, which first granted the Duong family significant power and influence in Bay Area politics in the 1990s.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
Sarvis watched electric cars explode and garbage bins tip over, fill with flames, and blow down the streets like missiles.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Garbage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garbage. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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