wastebasket

Example Sentences

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Shareholders get so little in settlement that most never collect their damages; their claim forms end up in the wastebasket.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

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

A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger