A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
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Examples for "wastebasket"
Examples for "wastebasket"
1Long pauses at the typewriter, more balls of paper in the wastebasket.
2With astonishing celerity, Katie swept across the room; to the other wastebasket.
3The top copy, I have no doubt, went straight into a wastebasket.
4I carried him down to the first wastebasket and dropped him in.
5Henry stared helplessly at the wastebasket before scooping it off the floor.
1He was hardly aware of the wastepaper basket thrust over his head.
2Wait a little before you throw my letter into the wastepaper basket.
3Jeremy Lewis gave him a wastepaper basket so he could throw up.
4Just go and get the wastepaper basket in the library, Judy.
5I regarded it as a hoax and consigned it to the wastepaper basket.
1I destroyed the noisome thing and cast it into the waste-paper basket.
2Brooks crumpled the letter up and flung it into the waste-paper basket.
3So I should advise you to put your regrets in the waste-paper basket.
4She dropped the bits into the waste-paper basket and stood wide-eyed over them.
5The youngest of the two had got into a waste-paper basket.
1I constructed a special apparatus, consisting of a hard steel circular cutter to act as a circular file.
1Hamilton tore up the letter and threw it into the waste basket.
2These he tore lengthwise and crosswise and dropped into the waste basket.
3Now, I don't want to file these letters in the waste basket.
4Tisdale crumpled the invitation again and dropped it deliberately in the waste basket.
5Orde crumpled the paper and threw it into the waste basket.
6He tore the letter across, and tossed the pieces into the waste basket.
7We have tossed 24 years into the waste basket, he said.
8It was ordered, but I'll throw it in the waste basket.
9Stepping over to the waste basket she dropped them into it.
10Bring me that waste basket and you may help me tear them up.
11I pretended to be looking for Algernon under a waste basket.
12The rejected tickets he deposits in a large waste basket provided for the discards.
13She tore the paper into bits and carried the pieces to the waste basket.
14And the form letter would go into the waste basket.
15Isabelle tossed the magazine into the waste basket, and yawned.
16Now and then he emptied them into the waste basket.
Translations for waste basket