TRASH in a Sentence

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For TRASH, below is one of 24 sentences:
And I'm ashamed for your mother, Scarlett, to hear you stand there and talk as though honest work made white trash out of nice people.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRASH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
trash
 n.  garbage; rubbish; worthless or discarded material or objects
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Sure he's poor, but he ain't trash; and I'm damned if I'll have any man, darky or white, throwing off on him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The house negroes of the County considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secure position in life stirred his envy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  And I'm ashamed for your mother, Scarlett, to hear you stand there and talk as though honest work made white trash out of nice people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Of course it was no pleasant thought, marrying Yankee white trash, but after all a girl couldn't live alone on a plantation; she had to have a husband to help her run it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  This overdressed, common, nasty piece of poor white trash was coming up the steps of Tara, bridling and grinning as if she belonged here.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  "Soon's Ah kick dis black trash outer mah way," answered Mammy loudly, swinging the carpetbag at a black buck who loitered tantalizingly in front of her and making him leap aside.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Ah wouldn let no sech trash sot me free, said Peter indignantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  But she just had to talk to somebody so she went over to Miss Cathleen's and that damned white trash, Hilton, gave her a passel of new ideas.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  We hear how you suck up to the Yankees and the white trash and the new-rich Carpetbaggers to get money out of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  It would serve her right for picking up trash and foisting it off on her friends and relatives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  And when you've ridden about the woods exposing yourself to attack, you've exposed every well-behaved woman in town to attack by putting temptation in the ways of darkies and mean white trash.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  She tidied his sacred cellar by throwing an empty bluing bottle into the trash bin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  "I think you and I could do as well as that if we tried," returned Jo, amused at his admiration of the trash.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
14  They are trash, and will soon be worse trash if I go on, for each is more sensational than the last.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
15  I should then have turned everything into the sublime and the beautiful; in the nastiest, unquestionable trash, I should have sought out the sublime and the beautiful.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VI
Example Sentence:
1  Do not use them to dispose of household trash.
2  The boy got out his wealth and examined it - bits of toys, marbles, and trash.
3  Smokers are some of the most inconsiderate individuals I've ever seen when it comes to tossing out their trash and blowing smoke into my personal space.
4  Rusted, broken-down cars in its yard, trash piled up on the porch, tar paper peeling from the roof, the shack was the picture of squalor.
5  Pop music doesn't have to be trash, it can be art.
6  Dogs and foxes scavenged through the trash cans for something to eat.