rubbish

Example Sentences

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The two localities, home to about 40,000 people, decided to take radical action around 25 years ago after predictions that their communal rubbish dump would be full by 2004.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Three of the worst illegal rubbish dumps in England are set to be cleaned up at the taxpayers' expense as part of a national waste crime action plan launched by the government.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

In others AFP found rubbish piled up at the entrance.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

Younger people — so-called digital natives — don’t realize how much this rubbish is a product of the internet.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

“Now if there were a cure,” Tam says, still pretty much shouting, “d’ye honestly think I’d be subjecting ye to all this here rubbish a-floating outta my brain?”

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness