garbage truck
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He’s never heard of a doctor’s son running behind a garbage truck: “it’s a family business, passed on from father to son and from brother to cousin.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
A garbage truck came and emptied the contents and drove off.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
Tapping into his inner Tom Cruise, Gosling makes love to the camera and performs some of his own showstopping moves, at one point while atop and almost under a speeding garbage truck.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
He told BBC News he had driven a block when his taxi "got blocked by a garbage truck and all of sudden paparazzi came and started taking pictures".
From BBC ● May 17, 2023
I drove around to the back and parked the minivan next to a rusted Dumpster that hadn’t encountered a garbage truck in decades.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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