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How to use dumpster in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Dumpster means a large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied. Example: “I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.”

More sentences with dumpster

  • I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.From the entry stick
  • The dumpster fire was ruled an arson.From the entry dumpster fire
  • The truck driver rolled off a fresh dumpster and left it sitting at the curb to be filled tomorrow.From the entry roll off
  • They're from the dumpster behind an apple-waxing plant in Washington State.1997, Michael I. Niman, People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia, page 6. From the entry blem
  • “It was a dumpster fire of diplomacy,” Kelly said.2025 March 2, Michael Sainato, quoting Mark Kelly, “Bernie Sanders dismisses Republicans’ ‘horrific’ calls for Zelenskyy to resign”, in…. From the entry dumpster fire
  • All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way"). From the entry house
  • Uri grasped a roughsnapped pinebranch from out of the snowjammed dumpster and mounted the steps to the porch.2017, Joshua Cohen, Moving Kings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry pinebranch
  • In between sets I took her outside, sat against a fence near the dumpster, and smoked a bone with her.2006, Sean Conway, Gillis Huckabee, page 140. From the entry bone
  • Alan crawled to the back of the store, to Kurt’s den, sure that his friend would have been back there, worn out from a night’s dumpster diving.2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. From the entry dumpster diving
  • I don't mean to burn bread on the guy, but if LaT cares to press it, he could be living in a dumpster before he gets too much older.2002 September 14, Chas, “Re: Information on John La Tourrette”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet). From the entry burn bread

Meaning of dumpster

  1. noun A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.
  2. verb To discard or dispose something, especially to throw into a dumpster.
  3. verb To humiliatingly destroy, utterly demolish (an opponent).

Full definition of dumpster

Questions about dumpster in a sentence

How do you use dumpster in a sentence?
Dumpster is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.”
What is a short sentence with dumpster?
“The dumpster fire was ruled an arson.”
What does dumpster mean?
Dumpster means a large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dumpster (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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