How to Use rubbish in a Sentence

rubbish

noun
  • Please, pick the rubbish up off the ground.
  • The food at that restaurant is complete rubbish.
  • I think what he says is absolute rubbish!
  • So where does the rubbish come from?
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
  • And much of all the rubbish even ends up in our streets and parks.
    — Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Well, maybe the new, grainy car picture will put all this rubbish to bed.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Most of the debris ended up in stacks of rubbish to be thrown away.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • The city has been collecting its rubbish fee for more than a decade.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • This idea that age blesses you with some kind of knowledge is rubbish.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
  • With no petrol to run dustbin trucks, rubbish is being burnt in the streets.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 31 May 2026
  • Even his last album, the two singles were good but the rest of it was rubbish.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • His house had been ransacked, filled with rubbish and beer bottles.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • In terms of someone not being able to study (the prints) now, that's rubbish.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
  • But there has been so much rubbish written about me and Brittany.
    — Alex Gurley, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • And a little bit of New rubbish that’ll get heard once and once only.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 7 July 2023
  • There was no litter, no rubbish of any kind except what the cows left behind.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Not this current rubbish that has been served up and charged at Michelin star rates.
    — Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The meal is rubbish; the house isn’t clean enough or the table isn’t set properly.
    — Laurène Daycard, Marie Claire, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Workers in white hazmat suits moved piles of rubbish into trucks.
    — Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Certainly many parents just want to throw the phone in the rubbish and make kids go play in the woods.
    — Fortune, 8 May 2018
  • For years smouldering hazardous waste sparked fires among the rubbish.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Is all religion rubbish and still ripping us apart…?
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Is all religion rubbish and still ripping us apart…?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
  • After each rally people come to collect all the rubbish and clean up the streets.
    — The Economist, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Officers arrived to find rubbish in the road in front of the address.
    — cleveland, 4 Jan. 2022
  • This was due to the incredible amount of rubbish that had been left to pile up inside.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Each piece that is modified becomes useful again and won’t end up in a pile of rubbish.
    — Brendan Nystedt, Wired, 10 June 2020
  • Most of the calls are related to fights, human waste in the street and rubbish and trash left outside.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • As the trailer begins, a vast expanse of rubbish litters the frame.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 17 Sep. 2022
  • After the violence and chaos, some even returned to clean up rubbish.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 15 June 2019

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