Sentence examples for dumpster from inspiring English sources

The word 'dumpster' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a large metal container used for garbage collection. For example: "The city's sanitation department put a dumpster behind the store for trash collection."

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dumpster

noun

A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.

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If you want a quick lesson in what he means, think back to New Labour: Tony Blair's absurd claim that Britain could somehow be "a young country", a long-forgotten book co-authored by Peter Mandelson (perhaps now festering in a Mancunian dumpster?), with a passage headed "Can Britain escape from its past?" – and the ahistorical boast to end all ahistorical boasts: "No more boom and bust".

Journalists will be blamed for spending time sniffing around in Mrs Palin's dumpster, while the corruption, ideological looniness, economic stagnation, and civic dysfunction that characterises Mr Obama's own state, city, and neighbourhood were subject to soft coverage, or none at all.

That will discourage dumpster divers from fishing out pre-approved credit-card offers from your rubbish bin.

Minna is fatally wounded and left in a dumpster.

That same month, the body of another Indonesian maid, Kikim Komalasari, was found in a dumpster in the Saudi town of Abha.

Shredders and shredding services are available to prevent dumpster divers, and credit card and bank statements can be sent electronically to prevent mail theft.

Nonelectronic methods of identity theft include stealing mail or rummaging through trash ("dumpster diving"), eavesdropping on private conversations in public venues ("shoulder surfing"), or the theft of a wallet or purse.

"It would be different if I lived on the streets of Chicago and ate garbage from a dumpster.

It was a commenter on my Facebook page who put the 'skipping' charges against three men who were taking discarded food from a bin at an Iceland store in North London in the best perspective I've seen – they said: if there's a crime here, it's only the (non-legal) one of wastefulness, in which case it's the supermarket that should be in the dock, not the dumpster divers.

Having coaxed an old MI6 friend (Giancarlo Giannini) out of retirement, Bond is later required to deal with his corpse – which he duly commits to a dumpster.

The female, bull terrier had been stabbed 11 times by an unknown attacker when Mr Hammond found her and put her in a dumpster, still alive.

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