How to Use garbage truck in a Sentence

garbage truck

noun
  • The garbage truck then rolled and crashed into a home.
    — Mary Ella Hastings june 26, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • My goal was to keep the mice healthy until the garbage truck showed up.
    — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • 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
  • That equals about a garbage truck full of plastic every minute.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
  • Jean Claude was not allowed to bite the man in the garbage truck.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • My dream girl started sounding more and more like a garbage truck.
    — Johnny Bauers, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
  • One photo showed a nearby garbage truck.
    — Greg Wehner , Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And for kids who can't help but admire the garbage truck on pickup days.
    — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 18 June 2025
  • And for kids who can't help but admire the garbage truck on pickup days.
    — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Apr. 2026
  • He was picked up from the airport in a garbage truck on his way to the rally.
    — Nik Popli, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Watch the video above to see a boy's fond farewell to his favorite garbage truck driver.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • And then, this week, donning a safety vest and riding in a garbage truck.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 2 Nov. 2024
  • At 46% off, this garbage truck is the biggest toy discount on our list.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 7 May 2024
  • So there could be an autonomous garbage truck.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Trump quickly seized on the gaffe, coming up with the idea of hiring a garbage truck to ride in.
    — Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The city of Oakland to replace three street sweepers and a garbage truck.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Items largely were not forcibly thrown out by law enforcement, but a garbage truck idled nearby.
    — Ashraf Khalil, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • After the man was freed from the garbage truck, he was transported to a hospital.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026
  • An orbital garbage truck is trying to get rid of space debris from 2009.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
  • To hear the garbage truck outside every Tuesday and watch James run to the window to watch.
    — Liza Esquibias, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The next day Trump gets picked up in Green Bay, Wisconsin by a garbage truck.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Officials said the lithium-ion battery had been thrown in the trash and was crushed inside the garbage truck, sparking the fire.
    — Madisen Keavy, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • An image posted on Reddit showed a garbage truck with flames several feet behind it.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
  • And around 10am Fridays, the city garbage truck rolls around, honking its horn to delight the children.
    — Asher Price, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Researchers have estimated that one garbage truck’s worth of plastic enters the ocean every minute.
    — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The spokesperson said the garbage truck driver and passenger were released from the hospital.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025

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