trashing

Example Sentences

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According to lawyers and formerly detained immigrants who spoke to Salon, ICE and Border Patrol officers never admit to trashing or keeping these items, but that they have not been found anywhere.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

"He hated that, you know, people were just trashing the land," Susan Pretti told AP.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

And there is the wholesale trashing of the editorial staffers of the real-life Condé Nast, here a gaggle of privileged narcissists who are accidentally infected, quarantined and treated like human garbage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Next week's global conference on tobacco control will consider what to do about the sheer volume of cigarette butts trashing the planet, with some recommending banning them completely.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

I stared at the flowers and thought about just trashing them since they’d be dead by the morning anyway.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds