garbage
noun
gar·bage
ˈgär-bij 
1
a
: food waste
b
: discarded or useless material
2
a
b
: inaccurate or useless data
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Examples of garbage in a Sentence
The park was littered with garbage.
Please take out the garbage.
Raccoons were going through the garbage.
Throw the can in the garbage.
If you ask me, what he said is a bunch of garbage.
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Then again, one man’s garbage TV is another man’s treasure.
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Prosecutors allege Portillo’s body was found by police wrapped in garbage bags and clothes stuffed under a bed inside Coto-Navarro’s apartment.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
The 55-year-old super’s body was found hidden under Navarro’s bed wrapped in clothing and two garbage bags, one covering his top half, the other covering his lower half.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
When a garbage man showed up this week, Ms. deVicariis was overjoyed after days of cleaning up vegetation.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Prosecutors allege Portillo’s body was found by police wrapped in garbage bags and clothes stuffed under a bed inside Coto-Navarro’s apartment.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
The 55-year-old super’s body was found hidden under Navarro’s bed wrapped in clothing and two garbage bags, one covering his top half, the other covering his lower half.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
When a garbage man showed up this week, Ms. deVicariis was overjoyed after days of cleaning up vegetation.
—Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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garbage
noun
gar·bage
ˈgär-bij
1
: food waste
2
: discarded or useless material : refuse
3
: something inferior, worthless, or useless
a show that's garbage
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