wastebasket

Example Sentences

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These commitments are important, as they give Kennedy something to wad up and christen his wastebasket with when he steps into his new office.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2025

This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2024

And make sure trash makes it to the wastebasket.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2022

Remarkably, I listened, and later found the perfect outlet for my manuscript — a seagrass wastebasket, a bit worn, but quite poetic in its own way.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

I was lying on the bed and lifted my head until I could see my wastebasket.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers