(n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
(v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Apparent digestibility of dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber, and nitrogen-free extract in garbage and control diets averaged 54.2 and 47.4, 50.0 and 41.3, 62.0 and 65.1, 53.1 and 42.3, and 61.8 and 54.5% as determined by chromium oxide technique.
(2) In a week that has witnessed Rachel Dolezal’s return , the Ashley Madison hack and those Gawker resignations , we didn’t need any more garbage news – and it’s only Wednesday.
(3) Is Mexico the diplomatic equivalent of the Pacific garbage patch: the place where failed negotiations go to die?
(4) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(5) That’s when my attorney came.” Police arrested another man, whom the Guardian will call Anthony, in 2006 on charges of starting a garbage fire, and moved him to Homan Square.
(6) Other cities, such as London, have cleaned their rivers not just of visual garbage but also invisible pollutants.
(7) The clogged sewage drains, road-side garbage dumps and unplanned industrial waste management pose severe health hazards.
(8) I watched them drag him out like a piece of garbage.” Police say Robinson died after arriving at a local hospital, but Ennis disputed this.
(9) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
(10) The river used to bring nothing but pollution but in the last five years or so there is cleaner water, more nutrients and less garbage,” he said, adding that other conservation and protection measures elsewhere in the region have also improved the ocean waters considerably.
(11) Dani Alves, who this week called the Spanish media “garbage” for the way it covers soccer, came off the bench in the second half and was loudly cheered by the Barcelona fans.
(12) It is composed of a garbage bin plus lid, attractant and insecticide-treated offal.
(13) So, the fans will be cold, but other than that, it seems the biggest impact this Arctic snap will have on the region will be down I-43 in the city of Sheboygan where garbage collection has been delayed.
(14) As chair of the campaign in Epping (population: 6,411), he spends 30 hours each week making phone calls, attending Republican meetings in his and surrounding towns, and visiting the local garbage dump to evangelize Trump as more than a flash in the pan.
(15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
(16) It's significantly less garbage-tasting, and potent enough to suitably end the evening.
(17) I want a pile of powder meth, 500 hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in.
(18) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
(19) That said, everyone in this election is literal garbage, even the candidates who aren’t publicly in denial about their own garbage bodies and brains.
(20) Read more “My street is cleaner,” people say, ignoring the fact that the 6,000 tonnes of garbage collected is being moved unsustainably to other parts of the city.
Garbo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Gay icon Greta Garbo was one of Sweden's most famous movie exports.
(2) Book and author quickly acquired a mystique, partly abetted by Salinger, who cultivated his obscurity to the point of mania, becoming as secretive and self-obsessed as Holden Caulfield, in the words of the New York Times , “the Garbo of letters”.
(3) Hollywood, England: The British Film Industry In The Sixties (1974) was particularly outstanding, and his biographies of Peter Sellers (1981) and Elizabeth Taylor (1990), and books on Greta Garbo (1980), Marlene Dietrich (1984), Bette Davis (1986), Joan Crawford (1983) and others were a model of their kind.
(4) By then, Salinger had become "the Garbo of letters", living a fiercely defended private life in rural New Hampshire, a town named Cornish.
(5) I used to pretend I was Louise Brooks or Greta Garbo in my bedroom,” she says mimicking her younger self.
(6) He didn't like being interrogated about them though; if I asked him about Greta Garbo [with whom he is said to have had an affair] , he went completely silent.
(7) If anything, there is a slight falling off in sustained comic writing when Boot gets to Ishmaelia; plot takes over as Waugh explains how William accidentally stumbles on his scoop, and the introduction of some love interest – in the form of the Garbo-esque young German woman Kätchen – is the one mis-step in the book.
(8) Garbo was a neighbour in Manhattan and was a creature of very regular habit.
(9) Many of the great icons of femininity were shaped or designed by gay men: Joan Crawford by William Haynes, Marlene Dietrich by Travis Banton, Greta Garbo by Adrian, Judy Garland by Roger Edens, Marilyn Monroe by Jack Cole.
(10) MI5 was never sure whether this threat was serious or not, but was adamant that she could not be allowed to leave the country for fear that she would not only betray her husband, but the entire deception operation of which Garbo and his fabricated espionage network was just one element.
(11) Before that, there were several fiascos which culminated with Greta Garbo refusing to accept him as her leading man in Queen Christina.
(12) Juan Pujol García, a Spaniard who was working for MI5 under the codename Garbo, had tricked his German spymasters into believing he ran a network of agents in Britain.
(13) I can't do it, sighed Mason; I'm set to play the male lead in La Duchesse de Langeais - which was to be the comeback picture for Greta Garbo.
(14) In her first new pictures for five years, Sherman, the face that launched a thousand gender-studies PhDs, has cast herself as the ageing Hollywood diva, channelling Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis and Greta Garbo.
(15) But we will have The Men, Zapata, On The Waterfront, The Fugitive Kind, The Chase, The Godfather, Last Tango ... it is enough, I suspect, for him to become as representative of cinema as Garbo, Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
(16) Norman Fay, High Spen, Gateshead Yes, there are a number of movies I would love to see rediscovered, one of which is the film The Divine Woman , which was one of the silent movies of Greta Garbo, directed by Victor Sjöström, the man who before Ingmar Bergman was the greatest Swedish film director and who went on to play the professor in Bergman's Wild Strawberries .
(17) Sitting with Michael Munn, biographer to the stars, in a somewhat bleak pub near his home in Sudbury, Suffolk, I can't get out of my head that classic Pete 'n' Dud sketch in which the flat-capped Peter Cook reveals to Dudley Moore the problems he is having being harassed by the likes of "bloody Greta Garbo".
(18) His Heathcliff in that film was blazingly romantic enough even for Garbo, who was apparently amazed if only as a spectator.
(19) Many men attended her salons (André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Esra Pound, TS Eliot, F Scott Fitzgerald, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rabindranath Tagore) but the real glory of her guest list was its women: Colette, Mata Hari, Isadora Duncan, Nancy Cunard, Greta Garbo, Peggy Guggenheim, Edna St Vincent Millay, Janet Flanner, Françoise Sagan.
(20) It also included the last ever appearance of Greta Garbo on film.