A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
1I destroyed the noisome thing and cast it into the waste-paper basket.
2Brooks crumpled the letter up and flung it into the waste-paper basket.
3So I should advise you to put your regrets in the waste-paper basket.
4She dropped the bits into the waste-paper basket and stood wide-eyed over them.
5The youngest of the two had got into a waste-paper basket.
6Most certainly your letter will not go into the waste-paper basket.
7Don Roberto read the note, grunted, and threw it into the waste-paper basket.
8Wallander crumpled the letter and threw it into the waste-paper basket.
9At any rate, I don't throw them into a waste-paper basket.
10Away, reptile, to the waste-paper basket, and thence to the flames!
11Without an instant of hesitation, carelessly he tossed it intact into the waste-paper basket.
12I asked, pointing to the waste-paper basket which she had planted beside my chair.
13They had found the wallet in a waste-paper basket, after getting directions from Persson.
14With an intense and hungry longing, they were concentrated upon her own waste-paper basket.
15His waste-paper basket was full and his brief-case, but his friend fetched that away.'
16And then suddenly I laughed in great relief, remembering the absence of the waste-paper basket.
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