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Meanings of wastebasket in English
Catalan
paperera A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
Usage of wastebasket in English
1
Long pauses at the typewriter, more balls of paper in the wastebasket.
2
With astonishing celerity, Katie swept across the room; to the other wastebasket.
3
The top copy, I have no doubt, went straight into a wastebasket.
4
I carried him down to the first wastebasket and dropped him in.
5
Henry stared helplessly at the wastebasket before scooping it off the floor.
6
Even more astonished than before, she carefully replaced it in the wastebasket.
7
The wad of tissues missed the wastebasket by a couple of inches.
8
His forehead crinkles as he brushes flakes of Styrofoam into a wastebasket.
9
He had balled up his wrapper and shot it at the wastebasket.
10
I had to use an old tissue I found in her wastebasket.
11
Finished, he broke it in two and tossed it into the wastebasket.
12
I dropped it in the wastebasket, wiped his ass with the washcloth.
13
Knew, for example, that there was a wastebasket in the corner behind him.
14
The writer has rescued the following fragment from the wastebasket of Hawaiian song.
15
Rhodes's blood-smeared knit shirt followed the paper towel into the wastebasket.
16
Flemmy tore the paper into quarters and tossed the fragments into the wastebasket.
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