Usage of "waste-paper basket"

Catalan

A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.

Synonyms

Examples for "wastebasket"

Long pauses at the typewriter, more balls of paper in the wastebasket. 
 The Shining 

With astonishing celerity, Katie swept across the room; to the other wastebasket. 
 The Complete Rama Omnibus 

The top copy, I have no doubt, went straight into a wastebasket. 
 Neither here nor there: travels in europe 

I carried him down to the first wastebasket and dropped him in. 
 Rage 

Henry stared helplessly at the wastebasket before scooping it off the floor. 
 G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery 

He was hardly aware of the wastepaper basket thrust over his head. 
 More William 

Wait a little before you throw my letter into the wastepaper basket. 
 Little Novels 

Jeremy Lewis gave him a wastepaper basket so he could throw up. 
 The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair 

Just go and get the wastepaper basket in the library, Judy. 
 In the Closed Room 

I regarded it as a hoax and consigned it to the wastepaper basket. 
 A Sweet Girl Graduate 

Hamilton tore up the letter and threw it into the waste basket. 
 The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Ha... 

These he tore lengthwise and crosswise and dropped into the waste basket. 
 Martin Eden 

Now, I don't want to file these letters in the waste basket. 
 The Dream Doctor 

Tisdale crumpled the invitation again and dropped it deliberately in the waste basket. 
 The Rim of the Desert 

Orde crumpled the paper and threw it into the waste basket. 
 The Riverman 

I constructed a special apparatus, consisting of a hard steel circular cutter to act as a circular file. 
 James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography 

Usage of waste-paper basket in English

I destroyed the noisome thing and cast it into the waste-paper basket. 
 The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel 

Brooks crumpled the letter up and flung it into the waste-paper basket. 
 A Prince of Sinners 

So I should advise you to put your regrets in the waste-paper basket. 
 The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Race... 

She dropped the bits into the waste-paper basket and stood wide-eyed over them. 
 Erik Dorn 

The youngest of the two had got into a waste-paper basket. 
 The Law and the Lady 

Most certainly your letter will not go into the waste-paper basket. 
 Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography 

Don Roberto read the note, grunted, and threw it into the waste-paper basket. 
 The Californians 

Wallander crumpled the letter and threw it into the waste-paper basket. 
 Firewall 

At any rate, I don't throw them into a waste-paper basket. 
 Barchester Towers 

Away, reptile, to the waste-paper basket, and thence to the flames! 
 Roundabout Papers 

Without an instant of hesitation, carelessly he tossed it intact into the waste-paper basket. 
 The Frame Up 

I asked, pointing to the waste-paper basket which she had planted beside my chair. 
 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 

They had found the wallet in a waste-paper basket, after getting directions from Persson. 
 Firewall 

With an intense and hungry longing, they were concentrated upon her own waste-paper basket. 
 The Frame Up 

His waste-paper basket was full and his brief-case, but his friend fetched that away.' 
 The Third Man 

And then suddenly I laughed in great relief, remembering the absence of the waste-paper basket. 
 Jaffery 

Translations for waste-paper basket

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Meanings of waste-paper basket in English