How to Use garbage truck in a Sentence
garbage truck
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Jean Claude was not allowed to bite the man in the garbage truck.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 2 May 2024
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Police drove across the dirt while a garbage truck parked at the top of a hill.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
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My goal was to keep the mice healthy until the garbage truck showed up.
—Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
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At 46% off, this garbage truck is the biggest toy discount on our list.
—Katrina Cossey, Parents, 7 May 2024
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Around that time, a friend who worked as a garbage truck driver offered to help train him for the same role.
—Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
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My dream girl started sounding more and more like a garbage truck.
—Johnny Bauers, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
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He’s been hanging off the back of a garbage truck for most of the past ten hours and his arms are slicked with sweat in the 91° afternoon heat.
—Time, 3 Aug. 2023
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Arias, who co-owns the bar, said the initial boom sounded like a garbage truck dropping a dumpster on the ground.
—Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
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An orbital garbage truck is trying to get rid of space debris from 2009.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
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The world is loud and full of interruptions, from the phone buzzing in your pocket to the garbage truck backing up outside your window.
—Eliza Brooke, New York Times, 4 July 2023
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Two workers were in the garbage truck when the crash occurred, and both were unharmed and at least one declined medical services.
—Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
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Others on scene said the body was found by a GFL Environmental garbage truck driver and was in a barrel next to the dumpster.
—Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2024
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These curtains also reduce noise by up to 30%, which can keep you asleep for longer, too (especially when the garbage truck rolls by at 5 a.m.).
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2024
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Haskins died last April when he was struck by a garbage truck while walking across a Florida interstate at night.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
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Sure enough, a green Paris garbage truck was seen collecting a long, high pile of rubbish Tuesday outside a school on a Left Bank street — although the truck was full long before all the refuse could be cleaned up.
—Elaine Ganley, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
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Russo was injured and hospitalized after the crash, as was the garbage truck driver, Jamison.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2024
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Police in Plain City, Ohio, received a disturbing call Thursday afternoon — human remains had been found in the back of a garbage truck.
—Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 16 June 2023
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In 2007, two cyclists died in separate crashes involving heavy trucks — one was killed by a cement mixing truck, the other by a garbage truck.
—Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
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The driver of the garbage truck remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation, Garibay said.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 31 May 2024
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According to the press release, firefighters rescued the entrapped woman by entering the garbage truck through the roof and using a basket attached to a fire truck crane to pull her out of the truck.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2024
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In the lyrics, Residente raps about becoming less relevant in his career as the cardboard cutout falls out of a garbage truck before being collected by a homeless man at the side of a lake.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2024
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Heavier vehicles also wear out roads faster, though the difference between a small sedan and a large electric SUV amounts to very little when compared to the effect of a garbage truck rolling by each morning.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2023
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The garbage truck driver remained at the scene and cooperated with officers, police said.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2024
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The Rumpke commercial garbage truck was traveling on the highway, on its way back to the landfill off Struble Road, when it was struck in the back by another vehicle, Yeager said.
—Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2023
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Making food harder to access by putting garbage in tightly closing bins and not on the curb, and waiting until just before the garbage truck arrives can reduce the chances of crows gain access to tempting table scraps, etc.
—oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
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On the day after Christmas, an investigator tailed a garbage truck on a shoreline residential route.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2023
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The drivers of the two passenger vehicles and the garbage truck were taken to nearby hospitals with non-life threatening injuries and the driver of the second tractor trailer was not injured, Mitchell said.
—The Courier-Journal, 17 Jan. 2024
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The drivers of the two passenger vehicles and the garbage truck were taken to nearby hospitals with non-life threatening injuries and the driver of the second tractor-trailer was not injured, Mitchell said.
—The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2024
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Residents expressed concerns about garbage truck traffic, a threat to safety and the potential for dragging down property values.
—Mary Helene Hall | Mhall@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
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One person was seriously injured in a multi-vehicle crash Thursday involving a school bus and a garbage truck in Milton, police said.
—Caroline Silva, ajc, 3 Aug. 2023
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