Example Sentences

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The following weekend, Robin and I have our first big fire, disposing of all the rubbish that the dustmen have refused to deal with.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2010

After the big day was past, thousands tramped the coronation route, through tattered paper arches and bedraggled festoons, while dustmen recovered tons of paper and empty bottles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two dustmen were lately disputing the difference between bishop and negus.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 by Various

We distinctly charge the dustmen with throwing what they ought to clear away, into the eyes of the public. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles

An old satire written at the time of the Reformation brings together actors, dustmen, jugglers, conjurers, and sellers of indulgences.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan