1
a
: food waste
b
: discarded or useless material
2
a
b
: inaccurate or useless data
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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Allegiance The Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, regroups on the garbage planet Anoat, while Finn and Poe go on a secret mission to retrieve a weapons cache to increase their dwindling arsenal.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Duluth, Minnesota, has installed effective and unobtrusive signs at each beach entrance next to a garbage receptacle.
—John Michael Pierobon, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
Stuy, a strapping, outspoken outdoorsman with blond hair faded to silver, has done as much as anyone to puncture the assumption that American adoptive parents rescued their daughters from the garbage heaps of China.
—Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Your social media mentions could become a garbage fire.
—Nikita Richardson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 May 2025
Duluth, Minnesota, has installed effective and unobtrusive signs at each beach entrance next to a garbage receptacle.
—John Michael Pierobon, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
Stuy, a strapping, outspoken outdoorsman with blond hair faded to silver, has done as much as anyone to puncture the assumption that American adoptive parents rescued their daughters from the garbage heaps of China.
—Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Your social media mentions could become a garbage fire.
—Nikita Richardson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for garbage
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“Garbage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garbage. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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