garbage
Example Sentences
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The Cuban people are living under dire conditions, without electricity, with little food, with garbage piled up on the streets and without adequate medical care.
A medical doctor, Drew studied for seven years in Cuba and said friends there have told him of food scarcity, power outages and garbage strewn in the streets.
From Barron's
The most grievous incident: someone had thrown garbage in a toilet on the carrier’s lowest deck.
“This article is going to be a nightmare for me,” he told a Times reporter, because it’s likely to attract a parade of unsolicited garbage trucks looking to dump their bags.
From Los Angeles Times
India generated nearly 1.5 million tonnes of e‑waste last year, according to official data -- enough to fill 200,000 garbage trucks -- though experts believe the real figure is likely to be twice as much.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
