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Synonyms for garbage
Synonyms
chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste
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His body was found wrapped in towels, placed in a garbage bag and stuffed in a freezer in a Dothan hotel room, an indictment states. — Ashley Remkus | [email protected], al, "Man dies in Alabama jail while awaiting trial for death of baby found in freezer," 31 Aug. 2019 Line the can with a heavy-duty garbage bag and fill it up with the hose. — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, "11 hurricane household hacks that would make MacGyver proud," 30 Aug. 2019 Soon a photo-realistic version of her in her famed garbage-bag suit spiraled toward the rafters. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "The VMAs Were the End of Reality," 27 Aug. 2019 All of its contents had been stuffed into a garbage bag and taken outside. — Christie Tate, Washington Post, "Mourning the last bag of breast milk, long after my kids outgrew breast-feeding," 16 Aug. 2019 That would include Angela McAnulty, who tortured and starved her 15-year-old daughter, and Billy Lee Oatney Jr., who raped and tortured Susi Larsen in 1996 before suffocating her with a garbage bag. — oregonlive.com, "The back-alley mugging of the death penalty: Steve Duin," 16 Aug. 2019 In a raid on his home in the upscale suburb of Cottonwood Heights, agents found a still-running pill press in the basement, thousands of pills and more than $1 million in cash stuffed in garbage bags, according to court documents. — CBS News, "Former Eagle Scout accused in multimillion-dollar drug empire to stand trial in Utah," 11 Aug. 2019 In a raid on Aaron Shamo’s home in the upscale suburb of Cottonwood Heights, agents found a still-running pill press in the basement, thousands of pills, and more than $1 million in cash stuffed in garbage bags, according to court documents. — Claire Galofaro, BostonGlobe.com, "Ex-Eagle Scout accused in online drug empire to stand trial," 11 Aug. 2019 Every time a load of recycleables is emptied at one of Rumpke's processing centers, operators can count on finding the items from some container neatly packed into a plastic garbage bag. — Rachel Berry, Cincinnati.com, "You're doing it wrong: Ohioans have recycling problems, audit finds," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'garbage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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