uncollected
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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It led to piles of uncollected waste in the streets and Health Secretary Wes Streeting saying he was concerned for public health.
From BBC
Strikes have led to rubbish piling up, with uncollected waste several feet high in some streets in the first few months, amid complaints of rats, foxes and seagulls tearing open plastic bags.
From BBC
In the previously uncollected poems we find Heaney working out forms, responding to social occasions, sometimes fumbling or biding his time but always doing the digging with his pen.
He took office in 1966 and left the city with piles of uncollected garbage and a fiscal mess.
Maria Licona, a 55-year-old resident who was forced to evacuate her home, told AFP she feared that uncollected dead animals would spread disease.
From Barron's
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