How to Use garbage time in a Sentence

garbage time

noun
  • Not to complete garbage time chores.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026
  • A lot of garbage time, to be honest with you.
    — Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • And most of his numbers came in garbage time.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The Chiefs didn’t punt until garbage time.
    — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The game went into garbage time early.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The fourth quarter was largely garbage time.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 2 Jan. 2026
  • But four of Arkansas’s big plays came in garbage time.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Thinking the Jets score a couple times early and once in garbage time.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Jeremy Sochan played only two minutes of garbage time at the end of the game.
    — Kristian Winfield, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The Steelers went 0-for-9 on third down before garbage time.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Vladislav Gavrikov added a garbage time goal and the Rangers skated away with a 6-2 win.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The Pats preferred to play out of base personnel for most drives before garbage time.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
  • And the Falcons’ sole touchdown came during garbage time late in the fourth quarter.
    — Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Heck, before garbage time, the Steelers ran only 40 plays.
    — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Jocytė got in garbage time minutes in the fourth quarter when the game became out of reach for the Valkyries.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 21 June 2026
  • The defense, meanwhile, didn’t let Winter Springs in the end zone until garbage time.
    — Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Within the context of a healthy roster, Santos would have spot minutes either in a pinch or in garbage time.
    — Jannelle Moore, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • He's seen action in garbage time against Purdue, Arkansas and Navy.
    — Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Rookie outside linebacker Elijah Ponder nabbed a sack in garbage time.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Denver’s end-of-bench players briefly threatened to turn the game upside down in garbage time before Houston held on.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The Spurs so thoroughly dominated that much of the fourth quarter turned into garbage time.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 7 May 2026
  • The frustration everyone feels with an offense that lacked any excitement before garbage time.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • After shooting 30% from the field for most of the second half, the Wildcats made five straight in garbage time to cut their deficit in half.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Luka Garza, Xavier Tillman and Amari Williams didn’t check in until garbage time.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The Steelers didn’t convert a third down until there were less than four minutes remaining, and didn’t find the end zone until garbage time.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • He was taken in the 2023 second-round pick appeared in just 49 games over three seasons, all in garbage time.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • After rarely playing outside of garbage time before this week, Walsh has made an impact with his defensive pressure in back-to-back games.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Strome added a second goal late in the third, and Tom Wilson added a garbage time, power-play goal as the Capitals pulled away.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Ducks crushed James Madison early, although the Dukes earned a backdoor cover in garbage time.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
  • All of his opportunities before this have come in garbage time, with the Hurricanes well ahead of the opponent and all the starters pulled.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025

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