ashcan

Example Sentences

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The 1940s sundered the 20th century, dispatching an entire global framework and any number of abiding social orders to the ashcan of history.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2018

Even the ashcan colors and chiaroscuro lighting brighten.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2011

Out of his esoteric sensibility, Beckett has fashioned the snob symbol of the ashcan lids under which two of his characters live in his play Endgame.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Garrett's design, raw garbage straight from the ashcan would be chopped into gravel-sized pieces by an enormous shredder, then run through a dryer to remove moisture.

From Time Magazine Archive

If your mood is unusually Bostonian when you receive this letter, you will very likely hurl the fragments of it into an ashcan omitted from the map of the brown building on Deerfield Street.

From White Ashes by Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)