Sentence examples for trash being from inspiring English sources

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At first glance, it appears to be a happy example of one man's trash being another man's treasure.

Garage sales stem from the logic of one person's trash being another's treasure, but so far there wasn't much to savor among the shabby castoff goods in Greenpoint.

Mr. Lawitts, of the sanitation department, said that the percentage of household trash being recycled had increased significantly in the last four years and that through education and enforcement, the city was hoping to reach 25percentt in 2002.

Around the Coney Island handball courts, the handball mecca of New York City, there was the usual thwock of rubber balls against concrete walls, sneakers sliding on sun-baked courts and raspy trash being talked among the players, many of whom had deep tans, taut bodies and egos big enough to play great playground handball.

"There was trash being burned outside, and a cable from the electricity had just fallen, so my teacher was looking out the window," said Ritha Kadhim, 12, speaking from his hospital bed, one of his eyes closed and swollen, the other filled with blood.

'I was upset enough about it at the time to report what I thought was a bugging and what I thought was the trash being taken — a number of incidents,' " Schulman writes that "the Justice Department was never able to prove that Koch had targeted one of its prosecutors, but for the first time in her career, O'Connell operated as if everything she said and did was being monitored".

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Trash was everywhere.

Trash is India's plague.

"Trash is legal," he said.

"Our trash is our art.

Only trash was left behind.

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