Example Sentences

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There was his man, barely visible, picking a careful way through the ash-heaps and avoiding the pestilential garbage-cans.

From The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Merwin, Bannister

I've rustled garbage-cans till the smell of food gives me a cold sweat.

From The Silver Horde by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

The result was that never again did any of the serial of janitors, which ran continuously next door, empty garbage-cans in the court.

From At Home with the Jardines by Bell, Lilian

The charwomen would beg the waiters to clear the tables, which looked as if garbage-cans had been emptied upon them.

From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Clark, Sue Ainslie