Used in a Sentence

garbage

How to use garbage in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for garbage.

Editorial note

Don't leave your program in a garbage state and keep going.

Examples9
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of garbage gathered in one view.

noun

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

noun

a worthless message

noun

a receptacle where waste can be discarded; "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for garbage.

noun

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

noun

a worthless message

noun

a receptacle where waste can be discarded; "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"

Example sentences

1

Don't leave your program in a garbage state and keep going.

2

That's when I realized his work on automatic garbage collection had gone too far.

3

Technically, so is YouTube, but you probably don't look at all the garbage.

4

It's not unusual to see bags of trash sitting by these things with random garbage scattered around or on top of them.

5

And I don't _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again.

6

The implementation will need a garbage-collector, a delicate, complicated, and cumbersome piece of code to write.

7

Talk about complicating a simple problem!Again, apologies for the rant but I couldn't even concentrate on what the blog post was saying because I was so distracted by this garbage.

8

No one in 1988 could say "a dynamic, prototype-based, garbage-collected language paired with a simple event model will allow developers to create simple real-time network applications easily in 2011".

9

If I'd decided to rape 4chan for all it was worth, as many would have, I'd probably be sitting on a pretty pile money from now, but as someone who has browsed the site daily for the past 10 years, the thought of seeing it littered with ads and other garbage makes my stomach sick.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use garbage in a sentence?

Don't leave your program in a garbage state and keep going.

What does garbage mean?

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

What part of speech is garbage?

garbage is commonly used as noun.