RUBBISH in a Sentence

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For RUBBISH, below is one of 64 sentences:
Men of privilege without power are waste material, Men of enlighten-ment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUBBISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rubbish
 n.  worthless material that is to be disposed of
 v.  attack strongly
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  In spite of the man being a friend of the Governor and the Chief of Police, he had acted like an outsider in taking money for what was worthless rubbish.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
2  Talents and gifts," the schoolmaster would declare, "are so much rubbish.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  Not rubbish, your Excellency, but practical stuff.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
4  "It is not rubbish," replied the lady of the house.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  Yes, that is what will come of infecting the peasant with such rubbish.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
6  He's not a boy, you know; it's time to throw up that rubbish.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Bazarov was on the point of uttering his favourite word, 'romanticism,' but he checked himself, and said, 'rubbish.'
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
9  "But that's all rubbish," Natasha chattered on.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
10  Another says clever things and one doesn't care to listen, but this one talks rubbish yet stirs an old fellow up.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIV
11  He lay stretched in the street covered with rubbish.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In V
12  The rubbish fell on Brujon's bed, so that they were not heard.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
13  Gibelotte went and came loaded with rubbish.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE
14  The spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
15  All sorts of rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external confusion.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  You must admit George, you're talking absolute rubbish.
2  The most direct financial incentive to prevent rubbish is to charge people by the amount of rubbish they put out.
3  Do not throw rubbish onto the ground.
4  The dustmen haven't collected the rubbish yet.
5  That book is a load of rubbish.
6  He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
7  I forgot to put the rubbish out for collection this morning.
8  There is a pile of rubbish in the corner of the street.
9  Many companies have struggled valiantly to use less energy and chuck out less rubbish.
10  They throw rubbish into rivers , too.
11  Men of privilege without power are waste material, Men of enlighten-ment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish.
12  Ninety per cent of American rubbish is dumped in landfill sites.
13  The disposal of rubbish is always a problem.
14  Patriotism: Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
15  The men came to remove the rubbish from the backyard.