garbage
Example Sentences
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In 2025, a jury awarded nearly $49 million to a man in a coma after he was hit by a city garbage truck driver, who was accused of making an “unsafe right turn.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
A wall of trash blocked the street, uncollected because there’s no fuel for the city’s garbage trucks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the street, a refrigerator missing a door was on its back, overflowing with garbage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Now I live in Gurugram, where footpaths vanish into rubble and garbage, are abruptly blocked by parked vehicles or construction, or sit uncomfortably high above the road.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
I need to unload the garbage, find the missing pieces, and get the trash back inside right away.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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