[ US /ˈɡɑɹbɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɑːbɪd‍ʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
  2. a receptacle where waste can be discarded
    she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage
  3. a worthless message
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How To Use garbage In A Sentence

  • The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
  • Based on the number of coffee cans I found in his garbage a few weeks ago, I'd say he drinks 8-9 pots of coffee every day, or about 30 shots of espresso.
  • She rustles a couple of black garbage bags in her hands.
  • I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
  • It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump.
  • A dense garbage of cans and plastic bags float past. Times, Sunday Times
  • A neighbour reported hearing a thud that sounded like a garbage bag being dropped.
  • The idea that s. 8 protects an individuals’s privacy in garbage until the last unpaid bill rots into dust, or the incriminating letters turn into muck and are no longer decipherable, is to my mind too extravagant to contemplate. SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out : Law is Cool
  • There is no accurate method of calculating the city's true population, and tourists also contribute directly to the excess garbage problems, he said.
  • Use a thirty-gallon garbage bin as a laundry hamper… it's waterproof, and hides those unsightly stains and odors.
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