trash compactor
Example Sentences
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In October, the company suspended dozens of workers at a New York warehouse after many of them staged a protest and refused to return to their shifts following a trash compactor fire.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2023
How 30 years ago, a trash compactor was blocks away from where the Pixar campus now stands, and green goo still oozes from some lots of land.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2022
Loud, jarring noises interrupt the holiday chatter, some of them issuing from an upstairs apartment, some from an especially noisy trash compactor.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2021
Heaps of discarded food scraps, clothes, linens and other items were raked up and loaded into a trash compactor.
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021
He was afraid, he said, of the escalators in the Atlanta airport, which looked like the teeth of some giant trash compactor.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
