How to Use trash in a Sentence

trash

1 of 2 noun
  • Take out the trash, please.
  • I put the dirty diaper in the trash.
  • She thinks that they're all trash.
  • I can't believe you're reading that trash.
  • Shoes and trash were strewn about.
    — Ryan Oehrli march 24, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Like, piles of garbage, trash bags.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Beer cans made up most of the trash.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Was the trash full enough to take out?
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Unions, fights, and trash – oh my!
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The house should throw this in the trash.
    — Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
  • There’s not as much trash on the street.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Go find your trash-can lid and bang it.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The whole box didn't end up in the trash.
    — Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Drain them in the trash and then place them in the sink.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Drain them in the trash and then place them in the sink.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
  • Items deemed trash are not booked and thrown in the garbage.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
  • Or pick up trash in a local park.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Never put e-waste in the trash.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Take the trash out every night.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2026
  • The site has whole hillsides of trash.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The trash that life throws at us every day.
    — Teddy Wayne september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Bag in plastic and place in the trash.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Wipe it clean before adding your trash bag.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Their site is clean, devoid of trash.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Will the new trash cart cost me any money?
    — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
  • With the cold weather, the trash is frozen.
    — Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The trash was picked up that very morning.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Under the bed were trash bags and duct tape.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Then scrape loose food and grease into the trash.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
  • Do not throw it away in your household trash.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Jan. 2026

trash

2 of 2 verb
  • The apartment had been trashed.
  • The vacuum cleaner couldn't be fixed, so I trashed it.
  • He says that the government's policies are trashing the environment.
  • Don't burn food scraps or trash in your fire ring or grill.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • Don't burn leftover food or trash on the grill.
    — AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This will help cut down on mess and trash around the campsite. Make meals ahead of time, store them in a cooler and heat over a campfire or portable stove when ready.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
  • Stop Sale on 5 pounds of beef chunks, and trashed.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Each got hit with a Stop Sale and trashed.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There were no bedsheets on the beds, and the kitchen was trashed.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Their food and equipment were now fair game to impound and trash.
    — Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Had my personal life mocked and trashed.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The movie got trashed by many people, predictably, but some of us loved it.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Go ahead, trash the transfer portal.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Here's what to trash in your kitchen, and what to keep an eye out for on grocery store shelves.
    — Rhyma Castillo, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Halloween is over, but don’t trash your jack-o’-lantern — compost it.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Angry, Sam goes to a dorm room and starts trashing it.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • As actors, you get told what to say or what projects to do, and you get trashed online.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Don't bring someone into my studio to trash my show.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Please stop trashing her to your other friends, though, for a few reasons.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But after the haircut, it would be swept up, trashed and dumped in a landfill.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Brownies or domovoi might trash your house, but kobolds are far more bloodthirsty.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And part of him seems to want to trash it out of rage at the limits to his dominance.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That’s 26 days or 19 days past when the turkey should have been trashed.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Spectators sometimes pile dozens around their necks, but many are trashed or left on the ground.
    — ABC News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Spectators sometimes pile dozens around their necks, but many are trashed or left on the ground.
    — Travis Loller, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2026
  • According to her post, she was told the house was trashed and the cats were not being cared for.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Officers have found front doors busted open as well as garage doors ripped down and trash cans mauled.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Someone nuts just had the guts to try to trash you With a hammer and a large amount of cake.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • At the time, there were reports of damage and trash in the unattended parks.
    — Caitlyn Kim, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Adding ammonia to trash cans and bags will reduce odors that attract bears.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2022

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