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How to use bin in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container. Example: “If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.”

Examples of bin by meaning

nounA box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

  • a corn bin
  • a wine bin
  • a coal bin

nounA container for rubbish or waste.

  • a rubbish bin
  • a wastepaper bin
  • an ashes bin

verbTo dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.

  • He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books,, →ISBN, page 28

verbTo throw away, reject, give up.

  • NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.2021 September 22, Howard Johnston, “NR: stop firefighting and plan for long-term progress”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11

verbTo place into a bin for storage.

  • to bin wine

More sentences with bin

  • If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.From the entry rotten
  • What are you doing?! There's a litter bin not three feet away.From the entry litter
  • Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage.From the entry garbage
  • We must wash out the bins; they are full of maggots.From the entry wash out
  • Judy is annoyed at Jim because he forgot to put the bins out again.From the entry annoyed
  • Don't throw the newspaper away, it goes in the recycle bin!From the entry throw away
  • Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.From the entry put up
  • That trash bin is one big stinkbomb.From the entry stinkbomb
  • In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch.From the entry pan and scan
  • He checks the bin for more potatoes.From the entry checks
  • The binned components were later disposed of.From the entry binned
  • The garbage truck whisked away the trash bin.From the entry whisk away
  • The vehicle has two underseat storage bins.From the entry underseat
  • The scrap yard had bins marked for irony aluminum, such as aluminum engine blocks not wholly cleaned of bolts, studs, brackets, and so on.From the entry irony
  • Put the vacuumings in the bin.From the entry vacuuming
  • Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.From the entry butty
  • People who give in end up in the trash bin of history.”2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, quoting Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section)…. From the entry trash bin of history
  • You dumped this funny, clever, successful accountant for this jobless human bin fire?2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Yas (Vivian Oparah). From the entry bin fire
  • A large roof rat ran from the overflowing bins and disappeared under the house.2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 308. From the entry roof rat
  • 'Would you rather eat toe jam or drink bin juice?' Aidan asked.2020, Danielle Binks, The Year the Maps Changed, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry bin juice
  • They'll be absolutely binned by the time they get here, says Karen.2018, Sally Rooney, “Six Weeks Later (April 2011)”, in Normal People. From the entry binned
  • The two balls of scrunched paper in the waste bin began, creakingly, to unscrunch.2016, Adam Roberts, chapter 1, in The Thing Itself, →ISBN. From the entry unscrunch
  • Nay—heaw—so—Tummus; goo theaw an smeawtch Seroh o' Rutchot's iv yo bin so kipper.2014, John Collier, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary. From the entry kipper
  • The next Monday afternoon Daryl hooked his wheelie bin onto the ute′s tow bar.2012, John Bryant, Great Australian Ute Stories, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page. From the entry wheelie bin
  • He took the remaining fillet from the fridge and slid it off the plate, into the bin.2010, Roddy Doyle, “Blood”, in Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio, editors, Stories: All-new Tales, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company…. From the entry wheelie
  • He tied the plastic liner and brought it out to the wheelie bin.2010, Roddy Doyle, “Blood”, in Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio, editors, Stories: All-new Tales, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company…. From the entry wheelie
  • Almost every inch of space is taken up with a box or bin bag of stuff.2009, Julie Corbin, Tell Me No Secrets, →ISBN. From the entry bin bag
  • In a compost bin or wormery, they disappear even faster, but composting pet waste is controversial.2009, Anna Shepard, How Green are My Wellies?. From the entry biobag
  • Luckily, the wayback was equipped with built-in bins alongside the walls.2009, Gloria VanDemmeltraadt, Musing and Munching: A Memoir and Cookbook, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry wayback
  • They hide all sorts of stuff at the bottom of the organic bins – like machine parts.2009 October 8, Andrew O’Hagan, “The rotting state of London’s rubbish habit”, in Evening Standard, London, page 14, column 2. From the entry refuse-collector
  • To maximize my chances of finding overhead bin space, I have a 21-inch-long rollerboard.2008 April 13, “Letters: Carrying Your Stuff”, in New York Times. From the entry rollerboard

Meaning of bin

  1. noun A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
  2. noun A container for rubbish or waste.
  3. noun Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.

Full definition of bin

Questions about bin in a sentence

How do you use bin in a sentence?
Bin is used as a noun and verb. For example: “If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.”
What is a short sentence with bin?
“a coal bin”
What does bin mean?
Bin means a box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bin (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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