wastepaper basket
Example Sentences
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The accusation, based on a comparison of handwriting on a document found in the German's wastepaper basket in Paris, kicked off what would become known as the "Dreyfus affair".
From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025
New visitors found the sculpture—inspired by an Indian stepwell and sometimes likened to a wastepaper basket or a shawarma—encased in metal mesh, as if to keep out pigeons.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2025
Tossing a bottle of Vichy water into a wastepaper basket, he walks off into the night with Rick to join the anti-Vichy French forces of Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021
Yet 15,000 words of her new book were torn up in the wastepaper basket, a “literary miscarriage”.
From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2018
She finds a worn-down tube of lipstick in her mother’s wastepaper basket and hides it away, and takes it to school in her pocket.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
