How to Use rubbish in a Sentence

rubbish

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  • And much of all the rubbish even ends up in our streets and parks.
    — Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Most of the debris ended up in stacks of rubbish to be thrown away.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Well, maybe the new, grainy car picture will put all this rubbish to bed.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Even his last album, the two singles were good but the rest of it was rubbish.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Certainly many parents just want to throw the phone in the rubbish and make kids go play in the woods.
    — Fortune, 8 May 2018
  • When the first part of the novel came out, in 1605, it was derided as rubbish by the Madrid elite.
    — Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • City Hall said that as of Monday, 9,300 tons of rubbish remained on the streets.
    — Elaine Ganley, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The meal is rubbish; the house isn’t clean enough or the table isn’t set properly.
    — Laurène Daycard, Marie Claire, 10 Mar. 2018
  • And a little bit of New rubbish that’ll get heard once and once only.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 7 July 2023
  • The city has been collecting its rubbish fee for more than a decade.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The couple, picking through a wide swath of rubbish, said there aren’t as many trash bags on the beach, but there are a lot of masks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • AC Milan have had a rubbish start to the season - and their starts to games aren't much better.
    — SI.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Officers arrived to find rubbish in the road in front of the address.
    — cleveland, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Video from the scene showed the battered truck afterwards, with rubbish strewn around it.
    — Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
  • This idea that age blesses you with some kind of knowledge is rubbish.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The team set up arm farms and playpens, where a fleet of robots for months would repeat the same task—like sorting rubbish.
    — WIRED, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Sohn remembered the first time rode on an engine ... to put out a rubbish fire.
    — Janelle Walker, Elgin Courier-News, 17 Mar. 2018
  • In the old days, this spot was a quarry and then a kind of neighborhood dump, with rubbish and household junk.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2021
  • And a tale-teller was a servant hired to put people to sleep by talking a load of rubbish to them.
    — Ali Smith, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • After each rally people come to collect all the rubbish and clean up the streets.
    — The Economist, 26 Aug. 2020
  • As the trailer begins, a vast expanse of rubbish litters the frame.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Just as the conclave began, Glasgow’s garbage workers went on strike, and rubbish piled up in the streets.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2021
  • His house had been ransacked, filled with rubbish and beer bottles.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • There was no litter, no rubbish of any kind except what the cows left behind.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Fire investigators list burning rubbish on the rear porch as the cause of the fire.
    — Cecilia Reyes, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • They were tasked with picking up rubbish that spanned a handful of city blocks clustered in the Lloyd Center area.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Teams took advantage of the helicopters to bring down 412 pounds of rubbish.
    — Alan Arnette, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2019
  • The rubbish is sold to recycling plants and the homeowners get points, which can be turned into cash.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • These notes cannot be thrown away like ordinary rubbish.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024

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