Sentence examples for as dustbin from inspiring English sources

He is general manager of Seddon Atkinson, which makes vehicles for municipalities and utilities, such as dustbin lorries.

May struck a far angrier note on his own website, denouncing the Sunday Times report – which was in the main admiring – as "dustbin sniffers strike again".

If, like modern elks and moose, their antlers drop off after mating, that would mean they'd just be lying around for enterprising folk to find and utilise as dustbin lids, surfboards or elaborate satellite dishes.

The tingle in my fingers as I ripple the pages of the OED, my teeth grinding furiously over subjunctive verbs, my pupils wide as dustbin lids as I cram every imaginable lexical disambiguation under the hot, summer sun mate.

Where would you put the Cineplex blockbusters that earned all the money – films such as Terminator Salvation or Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, films as noisy – and as hollow – as dustbins being churned in a cement mixer?

But it may also be the case that Ukip has momentarily replaced the Lib Dems as the dustbin for mid-term protest votes.

The conservative agricultural writer and broadcaster James Wentworth Day described Essex as "the dustbin of London" in his Book of Essex back in 1979.

Man has used the oceans as a dustbin for far too long.The bin would be even fuller and fouler had the London dumping convention not been signed in 1972, but the sea is still hideously polluted.

Modernism is also treated as a dustbin rich with ideas at the Modern Institute, a Glasgow gallery where blurry, atmospheric paper in a color-separation palette by Simon Starling covers the walls.

In particular, it will be difficult to explain to future generations how and why humanity decided to use the planet's oceans as a dustbin for plastic, a material known for its durability.

Householders currently can be punished for such actions as leaving dustbin lids open and using the wrong bin.