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

In one instance, he admitted writing an incriminating message known as the “dig note” — a possible to-do list found in a wastebasket in his Westchester house in 1982.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

Add a small rug, plants and a wastebasket, and install organizers to hold your office supplies.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2021

Then the door opened and knocked the paper against the wall just over my Malcolm X poster, against the side of my dresser, and into the wastebasket.

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