Example Sentences

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Mr. Paré-Poupart tells us that garbagemen are “born, and only rarely made.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

“I kind of think about them as the little garbagemen of the forest,” Marek said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

In the course of his investigation, the commissario interviews one of the garbagemen, or spazzini, from whom he gleans a damning piece of evidence.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2021

She wondered whether garbagemen went around telling people that everything was waste, which would’ve been, to her mind, closer to the truth than anything else she’d heard.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

A dismal assignment, I thought: garbagemen to the inmates.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover