uncollected

Example Sentences

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Images of uncollected garbage rotting on Havana’s streets have been broadcast across the globe.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

He took office in 1966 and left the city with piles of uncollected garbage and a fiscal mess.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

The American Red Cross reported that due to the cancellation of blood drives, more than 2,500 blood donations went uncollected in western North Carolina.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025

Maria Licona, a 55-year-old resident who was forced to evacuate her home, told AFP she feared that uncollected dead animals would spread disease.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

It has found me here on this island, in our little town, in a back alley where sleek boys smoke in a stairwell amidst the day’s uncollected refuse.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver