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Meanings of
wastepaper
in English
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Usage of
wastepaper
in English
1
He was hardly aware of the
wastepaper
basket thrust over his head.
2
Wait a little before you throw my letter into the
wastepaper
basket.
3
Jeremy Lewis gave him a
wastepaper
basket so he could throw up.
4
Just go and get the
wastepaper
basket in the library, Judy.
5
I regarded it as a hoax and consigned it to the
wastepaper
basket.
6
Peggy, armed with the
wastepaper
basket and the skin, followed open-mouthed.
7
The missive, whatever it was, went straight into the
wastepaper
bin.
8
These he dropped into the
wastepaper
-
basket
with the maximum of dispatch.
9
The press upended Beard's life as one might a
wastepaper
basket.
10
Dixon peered searchingly under the desk, into its top drawer, into the
wastepaper
-
basket
.
11
He screwed it up and dropped it in the
wastepaper
basket.
12
One of the Skipper's assistants was unsuccessfully lofting paper airplanes toward his
wastepaper
basket.
13
He frowned and threw the unsigned telegram into a
wastepaper
-
basket
.
14
Fortunately, I had some
wastepaper
that started the fire splendidly.
15
Hong Kong is under China's sovereignty, and whatever act Washington passes is just
wastepaper
.
16
He looked in the
wastepaper
basket, but it was empty.
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About this term
wastepaper
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
nearest wastepaper
discover a wastepaper
empty the wastepaper
gigantic wastepaper
good wastepaper
More collocations
Wastepaper
through the time
Wastepaper
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common