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

Panicked and still in the bathroom, using her smartphone to get help, she found my video, watched it and then used the wastebasket in the bathroom as her bucket.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

But I’m having a hard time playing nice to being people’s emotional wastebasket now.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2021

When I turned it over into the wastebasket, the small heap sparkled like diamond dust.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English