Sentence examples for rubbish present from inspiring English sources

"No, it's not – but it was a rubbish present," I say.

"Men who pipe up with the excuse that they forgot to buy a Christmas present because of the World Cup were always going to buy their partners a rubbish present anyway.

Tacky nostalgic touch-points – things that may have seemed a good idea at the time – are shoved into an obviously rubbish present.

An alternative method involves breaking down cellulose using various catalysts to accelerate the decomposition of organic plant residues into ethanol.Household rubbish presents special problems, since it is an unpredictable mishmash of all sorts of stuff.

My mates and I would meet on the balcony, get a bottle of rum and discuss our rubbish presents then all disperse and run around the club into all the different rooms like it was our playground, linking up at random points throughout the night with funny stories to tell.

The million-plus tons of plastic estimated to have been added to the oceans by the Japanese tsunami will expand the swirls of plastic rubbish already present by an estimated 10percentt, according to Eriksen.

Ooh, now that, I think, I do approve of: a nice little pre-Christmas skiing holiday without the kids, with the money you've saved by not buying anything and only giving rubbish handmade presents … No, that's not the right attitude; and Kirstie is here to meet a Swiss lady who is going to show us how to make a stunning, show-stopping Christmas garland.

Darwin's attitude was: "It is mere rubbish thinking at present of the origin of life; one might as well think of the origin of matter".

In a letter of March 29 , 1863 Darwin wrote to Joseph Hooker (1817 1911) that "I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion and used Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant 'appeared by some wholly unknown process' It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter".

Residents of the block had previously voiced concerns about piles of rubbish in communal areas presenting a fire risk.

Calm ruffled feathers by admitting your presents were rubbish and invite your father and his partner to do likewise.