trash

• So now what I need to find in the trash is a good old fashioned apple picker!
• The only item in the trash was a crumpled bakery bag from Baldanno's. —  Visions of Sugar Plums
• When he starts for the trash, the one watching calls the others on a cell phone, and they will then swoop down on him right after he tosses the cup in and head him to a corner where they can talk. —  AHMM,October2007
• Some of my liberados eagerly bought green calabashes and tasteless squash, with fine fat beef, because this trash was their early food; and an ounce of meat never entered their mouths. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
• When all the trash, the words, the collateral matter was cleared away from it all the chaff was fanned out of it, it was a bare absurdity; no less than that a thing may be lawfully driven away from where it has a lawful right to be The Judge says the people of the Territories have the right, by his principle, to have slaves if they want them. —  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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