Sentence examples for trash of war from inspiring English sources

The trash of war lay everywhere, with some Libyan characteristics: shell casings, plastic water bottles, incinerated rubber tires and burned-out hulks of tanks and other vehicles; clothes, too, especially, oddly, perhaps, men's underpants, which seemed to be lying around everywhere I went.

A draft avoider who trash talked prisoners of war.

A large green gateway surrounded the trash of men at war and slag heaps of construction offal.

Now, it's all encrusted with dirt, falling apart and surrounded with trash and the detritus of war.

ON THE WEB | www.nytimes.com Audio -- An interview with Ha Jin, the author of "War Trash," "Waiting," "The Crazed," "Under the Red Flag" and other novels: nytimes.com/booksaudio.

There wasn't much to like, just drifts of paper and trash: computer disks, laser printouts of war photographs, a sci-fi paperback ("Earth: Final Conflict — The Arrival"), a lei.

Ha Jin, below, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for the second time, for his novel "War Trash", about a Chinese prisoner of war held by Americans during the Korean War.

War Trash recounts the struggles of a Chinese soldier in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Korean War.

This is followed by a tug-of-war removal of the unwieldy, instantly expanding intestines, like a white plastic trash bag filled to bursting, and the sawing of the carcass in half, the moment when conventional butchering begins.

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING -- The filmmakers are promoting this comic drama as "the white-trash 'War of the Roses.' " It's the story of Don Bob Jay Millss), a downscale, beer-guzzling husband who collects action figures, and Donatella (Petra Western), his Italian immigrant wife, who is having a nervous breakdown.

Lalula, a woman of about 30 from a distant village trashed by war, saw her husband die.