A container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
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 .
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