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Catalan
paperera
A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
wastebasket
waste-paper basket
waste basket
circular file
Catalan
paperera
wastebasket
waste-paper basket
waste basket
circular file
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.
1
I destroyed the noisome thing and cast it into the
waste
-
paper
basket
.
2
Brooks crumpled the letter up and flung it into the
waste
-
paper
basket
.
3
So I should advise you to put your regrets in the
waste
-
paper
basket
.
4
She dropped the bits into the
waste
-
paper
basket
and stood wide-eyed over them.
5
The youngest of the two had got into a
waste
-
paper
basket
.
1
Hamilton tore up the letter and threw it into the
waste
basket
.
2
These he tore lengthwise and crosswise and dropped into the
waste
basket
.
3
Now, I don't want to file these letters in the
waste
basket
.
4
Tisdale crumpled the invitation again and dropped it deliberately in the
waste
basket
.
5
Orde crumpled the paper and threw it into the
waste
basket
.
1
I constructed a special apparatus, consisting of a hard steel circular cutter to act as a
circular
file
.
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
.
Catalan
paperera