unemptied
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Beyond airports, Verdi has also called for strikes in waste collection across several German cities, including Berlin, Essen and Kiel, where bins have gone unemptied since last week.
From BBC
A bouquet of tear gas and unemptied bins wasn't exactly the right atmosphere for the diplomatic courtship of a state visit.
From BBC
Strikes by refuse workers were held in August and further industrial action had been scheduled to close schools and leave bins unemptied this month.
From BBC
The animals have been increasingly drawn to the city in recent years, attracted by the piles of stinking trash that tumbles out of often unemptied rubbish skips.
From Reuters
Lost for a subject, and missing a turn among flaking billboards, unemptied bins, pickings for a light touch, legerdemain, there’s an angel’s wing flexed at my back— this artist’s quick impersonal tap, his opportune grace to feel and lift the obscure object, sweep and scarper, to dance for a living, no one the wiser,
From The New Yorker
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