How to Use garbageman in a Sentence
garbageman
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My fellow garbagemen and I scrub clean the stains of our consumer society.
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Pablo Strauss,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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The garbageman is Sisyphus, a… Subscribe or log in to continue reading.
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Pablo Strauss,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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Tom Pelphrey costars as Robbie, the desperate garbageman behind the robberies.
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Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Oct. 2025
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Elsewhere, too, Paré-Poupart takes care to explain the links between trash and garbagemen’s working and living conditions.
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Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2026
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According to the Montreal garbageman Simon Paré-Poupart, toddler garbage fandom is a manifestation of the age-old human appreciation of strength and daring.
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Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2026
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As Robbie Prendergrast, Pelphrey delivers a layered performance as a single father who works as a garbageman by day, but at night becomes a masked robber who steals from various members of a motorcycle gang to keep his family afloat.
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Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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In an episode of the new HBO miniseries Task, Pennsylvania garbageman Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) briefly takes hostage one of the members of the law-enforcement task force that’s been chasing him for his side gig robbing drug stash houses.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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