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