A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
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.
6 Even more astonished than before, she carefully replaced it in the wastebasket .
7 The wad of tissues missed the wastebasket by a couple of inches.
8 His forehead crinkles as he brushes flakes of Styrofoam into a wastebasket .
9 He had balled up his wrapper and shot it at the wastebasket .
10 I had to use an old tissue I found in her wastebasket .
11 Finished, he broke it in two and tossed it into the wastebasket .
12 I dropped it in the wastebasket , wiped his ass with the washcloth.
13 Knew, for example, that there was a wastebasket in the corner behind him.
14 The writer has rescued the following fragment from the wastebasket of Hawaiian song.
15 Rhodes's blood-smeared knit shirt followed the paper towel into the wastebasket .
16 Flemmy tore the paper into quarters and tossed the fragments into the wastebasket .
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