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  • To get access we had to climb over cement rubble and through garbage-strewn weeds growing, or perhaps I should say glowing, from soil that one suspects would make metal detectors yelp in alarm.

    One Sunny Side of Sewage Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • At the end of “WALL-E,” the intergalactic Buy n Large cruise ship returned to an Earth freshly blossoming with life after several centuries of garbage-strewn toxicity.

    ‘Wall-E’ Won’t Be Charging Up For Sequel, Says Film’s Director » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • Wyatt followed and they walked together down the garbage-strewn sidewalk.

    Elegy for the Zuccotti Republic Michael Gillan Maxwell 2011

  • After their harrowing ordeal in Libya, the fleeing workers' first stop in Tunisia is a garbage-strewn makeshift camp just outside the Ras Adjir border crossing.

    Tent camp, airlifts to help Libya refugees 2011

  • They find the cat lady and her garbage-strewn, feline-filled lawn hysterical.

    Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011

  • In some places, residents living in garbage-strewn, stagnant water have sabotaged barricades and flood-gates to release floodwaters from their neighborhoods, only to inundate other areas of the city.

    Floodwater Leaves Bangkok Awash in Trash James Hookway 2011

  • Mr. Isaev, who lived in Israel for 12 years before coming to the U.S. 22 years ago, said he views himself as a much-maligned savior of a garbage-strewn building that was going to ruin.

    Division in Sheepshead Bay Josh Barbanel 2011

  • Foreign diplomats who attended mostly voiced sympathy for the government's stand against the protesters, whose encampment had turned an upscale shopping and diplomatic district into a garbage-strewn jumble of tents, food stalls and barricades.

    Thai officials use a powerful visual to explain violence 2010

  • Ms. Hersonski makes use of a new reel of unedited film, which was found in 1998, that shows how events were meticulously staged for the Third Reich's cameras, with the ghetto's doomed citizens made to act out a fantasy as corpses were stacked in garbage-strewn streets.

    Artists and Monsters on Screen 2010

  • In the garbage-strewn alleys, residents complained that the city sanitation department neglected their streets, pointing to a homemade sewage system they had built between the houses.

    Tensions build in Palestinian neighborhood over plans to demolish 22 houses 2010

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