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
While the newspaper-trained illustrators who became the ashcan school saw ugliness as a police court scene, their friend.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bette never lets it go into circulation without warning the borrower of its deleterious effects, but she is disturbed when the city council tells her to put it in the ashcan.
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)
