How to Use trash in a Sentence

trash

1 of 2 noun
  • Take out the trash, please.
  • I put the dirty diaper in the trash.
  • She thinks that they're all trash.
  • I can't believe you're reading that trash.
  • Once the trap is filled with fruit flies or the bait has run out, toss the trap in the trash.
    Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
  • There was like, a trash bag on the side [to cover the letter ‘w’].
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2023
  • At the very least, shred them before throwing them in the trash.
    David Rae, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The smell of burning trash often wafts over the village.
    Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Photos and videos shared by the BBC show a bear on the deck of a home, as well as three bears on a trash heap.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Junk can be seen in the front and back yards of the home, with most of it being inside white trash bags.
    Pilar Arias, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • There’s not a shred of trash anywhere, like from a normal show.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Any trash needs to be taken out of the house in your car, using your own trash bags.
    Julia Young, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
  • And not just a survey that your big boss is going to turn around and throw in trash.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There are a few ways to tell if your chicken should be tossed in the trash rather than eaten.
    Woman's Day, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The flex liner bags can easily be washed and reused or tossed away in the trash.
    Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
  • That means anything made with LDPE (like toothpaste tubes) can be thrown in the trash.
    Brian Clark Howard, Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Take a walk along the shore, armed with gloves and trash bags, to gather garbage as a family.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Two hours into the smelly search, the team happened upon the woman's trash bag.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Club América fans also threw trash on the field against the Chicago Fire in their Round of 32 win.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • So on a child’s day, they are required to empty the dishwasher, take out the trash, feed the dog, etc.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The students fled, with one reporting that the men grabbed two laptops and threw them on the floor and into the trash.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Simply press the button on the handle to empty it out into the trash.
    Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Bag and seal all the plant parts in a plastic bag and trash — do not compost or greenwaste — those plants.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Saylor pulled trash bags over her Carhartt waterproof boots to be able to slide through it.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Perez and his family filled large black trash bags with toys, blankets and shoes that were ruined in the floods.
    Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In the Ivory Coast, entrepreneurs are recycling trash to make what type of new product?
    CNN, 26 Oct. 2023
  • These trash cans hold around 12 gallons of trash and can fit standard 13-gallon trash bags.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The village is seeking volunteers to clean up trash, help mulch young trees and get parks and grounds ready for spring.
    Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The men had taken the students to a trash dump near the town of Cocula, Murillo said, and killed those who weren’t already dead.
    Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Advertisement The late-night host continues to encounter fans of the series — not all of them are dressed in trash bags.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2024
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trash

2 of 2 verb
  • The apartment had been trashed.
  • The vacuum cleaner couldn't be fixed, so I trashed it.
  • He says that the government's policies are trashing the environment.
  • There were no bedsheets on the beds, and the kitchen was trashed.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The room at the Sage and Sand Motel, as it was known at the time, was trashed.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • But if the food still won’t budge, now’s the time to call it quits, trash the pan, and buy a new one.
    Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 12 Oct. 2022
  • If the values of a free society get in the way, trash them.
    Ali Soufan, Time, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Someone nuts just had the guts to try to trash you With a hammer and a large amount of cake.
    Pat Myers, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • The movie got trashed by many people, predictably, but some of us loved it.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Their food and equipment were now fair game to impound and trash.
    Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Which is people trash talking and the challenges around it.
    Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • Tommy, as he’s called, is able to trash a pub and rise through the ranks of Parliament.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 10 June 2022
  • But after the haircut, it would be swept up, trashed and dumped in a landfill.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The greatest gift, however, was his access to trash bins on the lot.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Many of the tombstones in the historic cemetery bear dates from the 1800s, but now many are broken, tipped over and trashed.
    Josh Lederman, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • People burned leaves in the fall, bacon in the pan, trash in a pit, and love letters from boyfriends in the school parking lot.
    Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Halloween is over, but don’t trash your jack-o’-lantern — compost it.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The Russians who occupied the building threw trash out the windows, which landed on top of the corpses.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Freestyle consists of a truck trashing as much of the dirt crew’s work as possible, in the span of two minutes.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Please stop trashing her to your other friends, though, for a few reasons.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Now, after a 138-day growth cycle, the astronauts remove the plants from the module and trash them.
    Melanie Canales, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • At least one of the armed settlers burst through the front door, trashing the sunroom and breaking windows.
    Isabel Debre, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
  • For your downtime Going out 🌸 Glue beads to trash, talk about your feelings.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In addition to trash cans, look out for twigs, branches — and even downed power lines.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The handbook urges Ukrainians to block roads with anything available, from dump trucks to trash, and never to sit around.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2022
  • Officers have found front doors busted open as well as garage doors ripped down and trash cans mauled.
    Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Butler: The Bulldogs will want to trash this game film and try and make a quick recovery with three more games over the next seven days.
    Dan Gelston, ajc, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Also trashed were the building’s HVAC and sprinkler systems.
    Lisa Rathke, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Adding ammonia to trash cans and bags will reduce odors that attract bears.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2022
  • Climbers trashing the mountain has been an issue for years.
    Colleen Grablick, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024

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