compost

compost
01. Don't put that banana peel in the garbage; I'll put it in the [compost].
02. We [compost] all our fruit and vegetable scraps instead of putting them in the garbage.
03. Please put anything that is not [compostable] into the garbage. The rest of it will be used for the garden.
04. Don't put meat or dairy products in the [compost] because they might attract rats.
05. You have to make sure that you turn the [compost] once in a while in order to get air and moisture in there to help all the stuff to break down.
06. The rotting fruits and vegetables in the [compost] smelled pretty bad.
07. He dug into the [compost] and found tons of worms to use as fishing bait.
08. The heat produced by the decomposing matter in the [compost] was such that when I dug into the pile, steam rose out of it.
09. You can put those grass cuttings and old leaves in the [compost] in the far corner of the backyard.
10. A good [compost] has a fairly even mixture of materials with carbon and nitrogen in it.
11. We put the cotton from our old futon in the [compost], and it decomposed completely in about three months.
12. You have to turn the [compost] once in a while in order to get air in it so that it will break down quickly.
13. A proper [compost] requires a good mix of materials containing both carbon and nitrogen in order to decompose efficiently.
14. Whenever I'm cooking, I always put the onion scraps into our [compost] bucket as soon as possible because if they sit in the sink for a while, they really begin to smell.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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