garbage bag

Example Sentences

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Often, the instinct is to just begin: grab a garbage bag, empty the freezer, start wiping baseboards, briefly consider alphabetizing your spices.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

That pair of sweats, though, were useless now — another pair about to be banished to some garbage bag or storage closet.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

I was not excited about the specter of Alvin’s 50-gallon garbage bag and roll of toilet paper, which would ensure me membership to what our pilot called “a very elite club.”

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2023

Meanwhile, the offender casually departs, carrying his garbage bag of belongings, still smoking his pipe without consequence.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023

But I’ve got to earn money now more than ever, so each day, when Shiloh takes his long nap, I set out with my plastic garbage bag hanging out one jeans’ pocket.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor