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Meanings of dustbin in English
Portuguese
ferro-velho Catalan
cubell de les escombraries 
A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
Synonyms
Examples for "ashcan"
Examples for "ashcan"
1
Rabbit takes off his coat, folds it nicely, and rests it on a clean ashcan lid.
2
The ashcan exploded a split-second later, blackening the back of Henry's shirt and tearing some of it away.
3
Ashcans, garage doors, fences of chickenwire caging crisscrossing stalks of dead flowers.
4
The paintings are somewhat reminiscent of the Ashcan School.
5
I'm just happy I get to play as "Ashcan" Pete.
1
I swept the glass slivers off the desk into the wastebin.
2
A man accused of murdering three women following the discovery of dismembered body parts in a London wastebin has appeared in court.
3
I hate that I can be hauled out to any ol' galactic wastebin on a moment's notice just to annihilate some random one-celled troglodyte.
1
Again, if two privates are detailed to empty the regimental ashbin, a junior N.C.O.
2
You're pretty sure this Ashbin character will get you set up in some decent sort of position?''
3
What's his name, Ashbin?
1
The waste container arrives in the room before the nozzlers.
2
David threw a second soiled towel into a waste container.
3
You put humongous waste container by HWA, correct?
4
Anu dragged an empty waste container from the sleep sled and filled it with hot water.
5
She tossed the pipette into a biological waste container and picked up the vial with the Tanguay sample solution.
1
They simply regarded the well in a practical way-asa trash bin.
2
Mattie stood and tossed the paper sack into an aluminum trash bin.
3
I'll thank you not to throw it into the nearest trash bin.
4
Pulling off his black overcoat, he stuffed it in a trash bin.
5
He sidled up to a trash bin in a dark corner.
1
Unfortunately the writer had to file the form in a trash can.
2
Outside, I dropped the towels, used and unused, in a trash can.
3
One entertaining maven's trash can be an addition to another's cookbook collection.
4
She quickly gazed into the trash can and spotted something on top.
5
I've actually found Leah picking brownie crust out of her trash can.
1
He emptied the dustpan into the garbage can behind the information counter.
2
So he took the paper towel back out of the garbage can.
3
Our careers would soon be in that garbage can, too, I thought.
4
Emmanuel quickly climbed onto the garbage can and scrambled over the wall.
5
A plastic garbage can rolled off the curb and into the road.
1
The FirePit is a sleek, portable, mesh box with removable legs, a hibachi-style grill, and an ash bin.
2
Through the clouds of smoke he heard the man clanging the shovel round inside of the ash bin.
3
Ever after Gin Gwee deposited the ashes by the kitchen steps every day; and on Friday solemnly transferred them to the ash bin!
1
And on this day, it seemed, he was humping a trash barrel.
2
Hellboy threw the core of his apple into a nearby trash barrel.
3
He gets up and tosses the bagel into a nearby trash barrel.
4
She scooted backward, felt her back strike a trash barrel, making it wobble.
5
Opening the back door, she dropped it into the trash barrel.
Usage of dustbin in English
1
And the pieces of the money pig were put into the dustbin.
2
He digs for rats in the dustbin sometimes, and gets very dirty.
3
Children were playing in the sand with the remains of a dustbin.
4
It was exhilarating to watch the police cower under commandeered dustbin lids.
5
You took the boy's socks off and threw them in the dustbin.
6
They went out to the dustbin and rummaged around in the rubbish.
7
In the dustbin, I fear, with the cretonne-covered egg-boxes and the penny fans.
8
Kitty metaphorically tossed the whole pack of qualifications into the dustbin.
9
Like apartheid in South Africa it is consigned to the dustbin of history.
10
I remained by the dustbin, hoping she would forget my presence.
11
A policeman stands near a burning dustbin in Paris last night
12
Two bailouts in a row went into the dustbin, into a bottomless barrel.
13
Then she nodded, acknowledging my father's continuing battle with the dustbin.
14
Some versions are roughly the same size and shape as a dustbin lid.
15
All of them got thrown into the dustbin of NFL history.
16
He was sitting with his back against a dustbin, possibly sleeping.
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