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Meanings of wastepaper basket in English
Catalan
paperera A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
Usage of wastepaper basket 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 press upended Beard's life as one might a wastepaper basket.
8
He screwed it up and dropped it in the wastepaper basket.
9
One of the Skipper's assistants was unsuccessfully lofting paper airplanes toward his wastepaper basket.
10
He looked in the wastepaper basket, but it was empty.
11
She polished off her can, crumpled it, then tossed it in the wastepaper basket.
12
As she went to throw it in the wastepaper basket, something caught her eye.
13
Then he'd tear it into little pieces and throw it into the wastepaper basket.
14
The Dreyfus case had exposed the perils of a wastepaper basket nearly a century ago.
15
Some would put the request straight in the wastepaper basket; others would make an excuse.
16
When they approached Genoa, the floor of the railway carriage resembled a gigantic wastepaper basket.