Explore Rubbish through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like trash or garbage. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Rubbish meaning
- Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.
- An item, or items, of low quality.
- Nonsense.
Synonyms of Rubbish
Using Rubbish
- The main meaning on this page is: Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash. | An item, or items, of low quality. | Nonsense.
- Useful related words include: trash, garbage, drivel, codswallop.
- In the example corpus, rubbish often appears in combinations such as: of rubbish, the rubbish, rubbish in.
Context around Rubbish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rubbish
- In this selection, "rubbish" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dumping, new, recyclable, removal, skip and scan stand out and add context to how "rubbish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a serious rubbish problem near and abubakar to rubbish president tinubu. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rubbish" sits close to words such as judy, stalls and sutton, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rubbish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As for shelters, yes, the Japanese ones are rubbish. (9 words)
Bin staff collecting the rubbish will leave incorrectly presented bags. (10 words)
A sign asks people not to dump their rubbish in the alleyway. (12 words)
An abandoned water park near Madrid has reportedly become a popular 'cruising' destination - a hot spot for men to meet up and have sex - with dozens of local men flocking to the area looking for encounters with strangers among the rubbish. (41 words)
Sophie Newton runs the Sophie’s Super Litter Picking group and spent more than two and a half hours filling 18 bags with rubbish from the beach on July 29. She told the BBC: “More people means more rubbish. (39 words)
A resident, who declined to provide his name, but who lives next to the rubbish skip, said he arrived home at around 20h00 on Friday evening and noticed two people carrying what he thought was rubbish to the skip. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A fly-tipping investigation has been launched after a video allegedly showed a rubbish removal company dumping rubbish in a Dagenham park.
People are also encouraged to take their rubbish where possible to avoid bins filling up and overflowing with rubbish.
Shamelessly chasing the TV dollar, but clueless and callously not doing enough to keep our greatest format alive while demanding bigger and extended periods for rubbish and more new rubbish.
Sophie Newton runs the Sophie’s Super Litter Picking group and spent more than two and a half hours filling 18 bags with rubbish from the beach on July 29. She told the BBC: “More people means more rubbish.
A resident, who declined to provide his name, but who lives next to the rubbish skip, said he arrived home at around 20h00 on Friday evening and noticed two people carrying what he thought was rubbish to the skip.
The vending machines accept any sort of recyclable rubbish, scan the rubbish, and pay back to those who bring recyclable objects,” says Ha.
He said: “I came down to put some rubbish in the bin and they were just sitting on top of the rubbish.
A broad majority of people have also expressed support for strikes that have disrupted schools, public and rubbish collection, burying the streets of Paris under piles of stinking waste.
After the performances, the judges voted to save Jacket Potato and gave their final guesses of who Rubbish could be, with suggestions including The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades, presenter Paddy McGuinness and Olympic cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins.
Akin Avci, who runs Hunters Home Store - a discount home-ware shop on Station Road in - says there is “a serious rubbish problem” near his business that the council “is refusing to deal with”.
Also yesterday, Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, described as frivolous, and diversionary the efforts by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar to rubbish President Tinubu’s credentials.
Although commentators differ on this, my impression is that our former partners would welcome us back, provided – after all the rubbish they have had to put up with – that we were serious.
Among the rubbish is plastic bottles containing what is understood to be urine.
An abandoned water park near Madrid has reportedly become a popular 'cruising' destination - a hot spot for men to meet up and have sex - with dozens of local men flocking to the area looking for encounters with strangers among the rubbish.
And with water comes waste in Visegrad: on its way from the mountains, it flows through the area’s many illegal dumps, bringing rubbish collected there into the river.
An old caravan 'full of rubbish' has been left abandoned at the side of a Wiltshire road.
As for shelters, yes, the Japanese ones are rubbish.
A sign asks people not to dump their rubbish in the alleyway.
As part of the plan his team would utilise artificial intelligence (AI) that would operate a mechanical arm to sort the mounds of rubbish.
Bin staff collecting the rubbish will leave incorrectly presented bags.
Common combinations with rubbish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of rubbish 35×
- the rubbish 23×
- rubbish in 15×
- rubbish and 11×
- rubbish is 9×
- to rubbish 8×
- and rubbish 7×
- rubbish bin 7×
- their rubbish 6×
- with rubbish 6×