How do you use Dustman in a sentence? See 2 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like garbageman or hauler, plus the exact meaning.
Dustman in a sentence
Dustman meaning
A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
Synonyms of Dustman
Using Dustman
- The main meaning on this page is: A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
- Useful related words include: garbage man, garbageman, garbage collector, garbage carter.
Context around Dustman
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dustman
- In this selection, "dustman" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a dustman or a and driver a dustman at his. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dustman" sits close to words such as aabb, aabria and aacha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dustman
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bailey and his mother, Helen (nee Burgess), often bickered – for instance, over whether his father, Arthur, worked as a “dustman” or a “roadsweeper”. (23 words)
Before he took up the job as a train driver, he had worked as a bus driver, a dustman at his former club Orient and did cleaning at a cricket ground. (31 words)
Before he took up the job as a train driver, he had worked as a bus driver, a dustman at his former club Orient and did cleaning at a cricket ground. (31 words)
Bailey and his mother, Helen (nee Burgess), often bickered – for instance, over whether his father, Arthur, worked as a “dustman” or a “roadsweeper”. (23 words)
Example sentences (2)
Bailey and his mother, Helen (nee Burgess), often bickered – for instance, over whether his father, Arthur, worked as a “dustman” or a “roadsweeper”.
Before he took up the job as a train driver, he had worked as a bus driver, a dustman at his former club Orient and did cleaning at a cricket ground.