waste basket
Example Sentences
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You could see her eyes roll to the back of her head as she sighed and held out the waste basket.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2023
Selma Dabbagh wrote us an abandoned love letter, retrieved from a hotel waste basket and sent as a scrumpled ball.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2016
The gal there said, ‘If somebody doesn’t pick it up, I’m throwing it in the waste basket.’
From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2015
He saw the couple from his upstairs window struggling with their waste basket and asked his grandmother if he could lend them their shovels.
From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 2, 2015
It was a little messy to get at them, and Mr. Coggin, the movie cameraman, was sick in a waste basket.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
