How to Use dumpster fire in a Sentence

dumpster fire

noun
  • Dumpster fire beat woke in a runoff.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Both teams are dumpster fires at the moment.
    — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • One of the older attendees had asked what dumpster fire meant.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Today, Jesse shares his thoughts via email about that dumpster fire of a finale.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Think dumpster fires, car fires and people burning garbage in alleys.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 3 Feb. 2025
  • My assignment has been super chill, but the rest of the unit is a dumpster fire today.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 7 June 2024
  • All harmony, no dumpster fires.
    — Sarah Wang, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
  • The shows are a dumpster fire of rivalries and resentments with a rabid fan base.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Wood brought video of him riding in a fire truck, putting out a dumpster fire, and generally living the dream.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Other videos showed children and teen protesters walking near to dumpster fires.
    — Lauren Izso, CNN, 30 June 2024
  • But now, Twitter feels like an absolute rotten fish dumpster fire.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • The founder of one of the biggest dumpster fires of 2021 has been arrested and charged with fraud.
    — Brady Dale, Axios, 31 July 2024
  • In fact, fans following the dumpster fire can now commemorate the ordeal with merch.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
  • The Arizona Bowl was a dumpster fire lit right under Snoop Dogg’s nose.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The 1970s were an economic dumpster fire.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Platner is a political dumpster fire and the epitome of their moral hypocrisy.
    — Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
  • The slideshow, however, began with a picture of a literal dumpster fire.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Denver is competent again — nowhere near the dumpster fire standing on the opposite headline.
    — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Ohio State is a dumpster fire, but this isn’t one of the better Fran McCaffery teams.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
  • All of which served as excellent distractions from the dumpster fire that is life on Earth in 2023.
    — Amy Phillips, Pitchfork, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This dumpster fire desk organizer has three pen compartments and more than 100 flame notecards for hot takes and to-do lists.
    — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Needless to say, the US is embroiled in a sociopolitical dumpster fire.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Whose career never immolated in a dumpster fire of corruption or ego like that of too many of her Eastside colleagues.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This is either going to be a stroke of genius from Posey or a dumpster fire so spectacular that the flames will be visible from Reno.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And would the evening acknowledge the world outside Hollywood — that is to say, the world outside the picture business — in this year of fires and dumpster fires?
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Roads remained choked with traffic, and the city’s poorer residents resorted to dumpster fires, burning scraps of wood, rubber, and plastic to stay warm.
    — WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In a nod to the show’s title, the former governor of California walks away from a literal dumpster fire in the first trailer.
    — Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
  • These entities position themselves as middlemen between us and, in doing so, make a dumpster fire of the internet.
    — Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Outside of a couple of Jameis Winston hot streaks that produced divisional upsets, the offense has been a dumpster fire all season.
    — Zac Jackson, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Earlier in the evening, the fire emoji, and also the trashcan and fire emojis used together to represent dumpster fire, won the emoji category.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025

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