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.
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.
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.
1I constructed a special apparatus, consisting of a hard steel circular cutter to act as a circular file.
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.
6Peggy, armed with the wastepaper basket and the skin, followed open-mouthed.
7The press upended Beard's life as one might a wastepaper basket.
8He screwed it up and dropped it in the wastepaper basket.
9One of the Skipper's assistants was unsuccessfully lofting paper airplanes toward his wastepaper basket.
10He looked in the wastepaper basket, but it was empty.
11She polished off her can, crumpled it, then tossed it in the wastepaper basket.
12As she went to throw it in the wastepaper basket, something caught her eye.
13Then he'd tear it into little pieces and throw it into the wastepaper basket.
14The Dreyfus case had exposed the perils of a wastepaper basket nearly a century ago.
15Some would put the request straight in the wastepaper basket; others would make an excuse.
16When they approached Genoa, the floor of the railway carriage resembled a gigantic wastepaper basket.
Translations for wastepaper basket