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Meanings of wastepaper basket in inglés
catalán
paperera A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
Synonyms
Examples for "wastebasket"
Examples for "wastebasket"
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.
Usage of wastepaper basket in inglés
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.