pick up garbage
Frequency: 7.410.5 per million words
to collect garbage, often from the ground
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Examples (10)
- Volunteers picked up bags of garbage along the riverbank.
- Please pick up the garbage before the guests arrive.
- The city workers are picking up the holiday garbage this morning.
- We picked up all the garbage we could find.
- Who will pick up the garbage after the festival?
- She refuses to pick up other people’s garbage.
- By noon, the crew had picked up most of the garbage.
- If you pick up your garbage, the park stays clean for everyone.
- The garbage was picked up on schedule despite the rain.
- Don’t litter—pick up your garbage and take it with you.