trashcan

Example Sentences

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During that search, officers saw Davis throw his cellphone into a trashcan and place items on top of it as if to hide it, according to a law enforcement affidavit.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023

The exhibition space is fashioned as a schoolhouse tipped on its side, with a desk and chair on the wall along with a trashcan overflowing with crumpled, doodled homework.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2022

We don’t carry a personal device with us — it’s in our cars, at our bus stops, in every public trashcan and streetlight.

From The Verge • Nov. 1, 2021

They were disposed of properly, but the trashcan didn’t have a lid or anything.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2020

He picked up the napkin, balled it, and pitched it into the trashcan.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau