Examples of “bin” in a Sentence

noun A container used to hold or throw away items.

• There is a litter bin next to every bench in the park.
• Someone has left a full bin outside the front gate again.
• Put the empty bottles in the recycling bin.

verb To throw something away.

• I binned the stale bread and made fresh sandwiches instead.
• If a letter looks like junk mail, she usually bins it without opening it.
• He binned the old newspapers before the guests arrived.

verb To sort data or items into discrete groups or categories.

• The researcher binned the measurements into ranges of ten centimeters each.
• The software bins customers by how often they shop, then plots each group.
• The survey results were binned by age range.