How to Use trash compactor in a Sentence

trash compactor

noun
  • Sitting there is a 10-ton trash compactor that handled everything that the team threw out.
    — Carlton Gillespie, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
  • Under federal law, a trash compactor cannot legally be loaded by anyone under 18 years of age.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The boyfriend said he was forced to discard some of the evidence, including the knife and cleaning supplies, into a trash compactor, deputies said.
    — Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Inside the trash compactor, detectives found pots and pans, Limon’s wallet and glasses and Bristy’s pink iPhone case.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
  • For example, a former Goodwill employee revealed that her store was so overrun with mugs that the overstock ended up in a trash compactor.
    — Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
  • On a cold morning in January, a trash compactor rolled down a stretch of East 12th Avenue, where a dozen people lived in tents and cars.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • But the defense argued that blood and DNA could have been transferred between items after being placed in bags and pressed together in a trash compactor.
    — Penny Kmitt, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The bags that Limon's body was found in were similar to those found under Abugharbieh's bed in their apartment complex's trash compactor, according to court documents.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There's the trash compactor, Emperor Palpatine's throne room, a hangar with an Imperial Shuttle and a whole lot more.
    — Kim Snaith, Space.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • After sliding down a Brooklyn building’s garbage chute at age 9 to retrieve a superintendent’s keys, his foot caught in the trash compactor and was left hanging by only a tendon.
    — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026
  • Those expansive delights have all been smashed into our current trash compactor of Political Relevance All the Time.
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
  • In a trash compactor at the complex, investigators found Limon’s wallet and glasses and a pink iPhone case that belonged to Nahida Bristy, the other missing student.
    — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The trash compactor room at the NYCHA development is normally kept locked and is off-limits to residents, a building worker said.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • When an apartment manager gave them access to the apartment, and to Limon's locked bedroom, the third roommate told detectives that Abugharbieh had used a cart overnight on April 16 to move cardboard boxes from his room to the trash compactor.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • When an apartment manager gave investigators access to the apartment, and to Limon's locked bedroom, the third roommate told detectives Abugharbieh had used a cart overnight on April 16 to move cardboard boxes from his room to the trash compactor.
    — CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • The family of a Brooklyn mother whose body was found stuffed in a black plastic bag inside a NYCHA complex trash compactor room is desperate to know how a fun night out with friends ended with her death and dismemberment.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • According to Connor, evidence will show that Brian Walshe's cellphone was tracked in the area of a dumpster and trash compactor by his mother's apartment complex in Swampscott after Ana Walshe's death.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • These rooms include the trash compactor, Princess Leia’s prison cell and the tractor beam control room from A New Hope, and Emperor Palpatine’s throne room as seen in Return of the Jedi.
    — Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025

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