Protest
Trash
Trash verb - To criticize harshly and usually publicly.
How words are described
| mass | mass protest | mass trash |
| actual | actual protest | actual trash |
| entire | entire protest | entire trash |
| large | large protest | large trash |
| Other adjectives: great, little, major, later. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Eggman comes to see Knuckles, who is working as the temporary mayor, to protest about his trash not being picked up, Knuckles tells him that he has a lot of people waiting, and that he has to take a number.
Source: Take a Number - Back in The '60s, there were some public demonstrations in which feminists threw bras, high heels, and other fashion-related items into trash cans to protest unrealistic standards of beauty.
Source: Useful Notes / Feminism -
When he found out the rest of the band allowed car company Buick to use "Light My Fire" from The Doors in a commercial, Morrison was furious and threatened to trash one of Buick's cars on television in protest if the commercial aired nationwide.
Source: Doing It for the Art
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