waste basket

Example Sentences

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I hacked, while mint-green "Exorcist"-like fluid sprayed out of my mouth and into a waste basket.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2023

Selma Dabbagh wrote us an abandoned love letter, retrieved from a hotel waste basket and sent as a scrumpled ball.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2016

The gal there said, ‘If somebody doesn’t pick it up, I’m throwing it in the waste basket.’

From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2015

At first, armed only with a mesh waste basket and a broom, the couple looked over matched for the pile of snow that fenced in their car.

From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 2, 2015

It was a little messy to get at them, and Mr. Coggin, the movie cameraman, was sick in a waste basket.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey