Garbage is an English word with synonyms like refuse or substance. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Garbage meaning
- Food waste material of any kind.
- foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
Synonyms of Garbage
Using Garbage
- The main meaning on this page is: Food waste material of any kind. | foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter. | Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- Useful related words include: refuse, substance, subject matter, content.
- Possible Dutch translations are: huisvuil, vuilnis, vuil.
- In the example corpus, garbage often appears in combinations such as: of garbage, garbage collection, the garbage.
Context around Garbage
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 10 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Garbage
- In this selection, "garbage" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, generational, leaving, dishonest, collection, bags and pickup stand out and add context to how "garbage" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 8 curbside garbage collection will, a temporary garbage drop off and garbage collection. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "garbage" sits close to words such as stays, dynamics and slam, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with garbage
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Some garbage people never stop being garbage. (7 words)
Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase garbage in, garbage out? (10 words)
Garbage collection The garbage collector for Self uses generational garbage collection which segregates objects by age. (16 words)
He allowed himself to be bamboozled by medical “expert” hacks and their immensely flawed garbage in-garbage out models into destroying our economy, and he may end up paying the price in November as the economy is mired in a 2 Great Depression. (43 words)
This week's altered garbage pickup schedule caught residents living downtown, in parts of West Ashley and on James Island by surprise on Sunday when garbage trucks drove by for collections but their bins weren't out on the street. (40 words)
Durham Region and the City of Oshawa are advising residents that as of Tuesday, Sept. 8, curbside garbage collection will be reverting back to a four-bag limit and the sale of garbage bag tags will be available. (38 words)
Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase garbage in, garbage out? (10 words)
One commentator, Femi Fani-Kayode, to be specific, dismissed her letter as a “boring epistle of dishonest garbage” – except that Adichie is incapable of writing garbage! (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
Garbage collection The garbage collector for Self uses generational garbage collection which segregates objects by age.
Boudreau added that her building’s garbage chute has been out of order for several months, which has caused tenants to start leaving garbage in the hallway, a trend she believes may be exacerbating the vermin problem.
During several meetings last year, residents voiced their concerns over the unhygienic state in several parts of the villages as garbage would be piled up for days in designated and undesignated areas for garbage disposal.
One commentator, Femi Fani-Kayode, to be specific, dismissed her letter as a “boring epistle of dishonest garbage” – except that Adichie is incapable of writing garbage!
With garbage collection paused, striking town workers let cars in one at a time to a temporary garbage drop-off in Whitby.
Without trusted data, Sood said that AI is more likely to end up with a “garbage in, garbage out” type of outcome.
In the case of Fort McMurray, Shields said residents were originally asked to clean out fridges and put the contents into triple-bagged garbage bags and then into municipal garbage containers.
Keep garbage in a well-secured location and only put out garbage on the morning of pickup.
That I married a garbage man, that I was a garbage person and that I belonged in the ‘landfill with all the bums’.
Trump, who himself has branded Harris's allies "garbage" and "scum," pounced on the misstep with a publicity stunt as he climbed into a Trump-branded garbage truck.
Durham Region and the City of Oshawa are advising residents that as of Tuesday, Sept. 8, curbside garbage collection will be reverting back to a four-bag limit and the sale of garbage bag tags will be available.
He allowed himself to be bamboozled by medical “expert” hacks and their immensely flawed garbage in-garbage out models into destroying our economy, and he may end up paying the price in November as the economy is mired in a 2 Great Depression.
Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase garbage in, garbage out?
Some garbage people never stop being garbage.
This week's altered garbage pickup schedule caught residents living downtown, in parts of West Ashley and on James Island by surprise on Sunday when garbage trucks drove by for collections but their bins weren't out on the street.
We’ve seen a serious case of garbage in, garbage out regarding the Wuhan coronavirus, though, and failing to face this will cause history to repeat itself.
Garbage creates things like leachate and methane gas which have to be treated, so reducing the amount of garbage in landfills will reduce the amount of toxins in the environment.
Norm pointed out that if people choose not to pay their garbage bill, he would have no recourse to collect, whereas the city can assess unpaid garbage collection fees to property taxes.
Sanchez was asked if garbage pickup being left to every second week won’t allow that garbage smell to become overpowering, and possibly attract rodents or other pests.
Sometimes we have a pile of tires from someone who didn’t want to pay the recycle fee, or garbage bags from someone who missed garbage day.
Phrases with garbage
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with garbage
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of garbage 32×
- garbage collection 17×
- the garbage 17×
- garbage in 13×
- garbage and 13×
- in garbage 9×
- garbage truck 9×
- with garbage 8×
- garbage bags 8×
- and garbage 8×