wastebasket

Example Sentences

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Do it once, but make sure to sit beside a wastebasket.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025

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 fact, I invented an official “Plaza Suite” wastebasket with its own logo, and I invented a fire screen with a “Plaza Suite” embossed logo.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

I crumpled it and tossed it toward the wastebasket, but I missed.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter