wastebasket
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The wastebasket at the Andaz Lisbon was so small I seriously thought it was an umbrella holder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
Mrs. Glass briskly reached up and took down an object from the bottom shelf and dropped it, with a muffled, tinny bang, into the wastebasket.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
When that happens, residents are forced to defecate in wastebaskets in their rooms and then, he said, take “the walk of shame” to deposit their feces in hallway trash rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
She herself had emptied the wastebaskets as a little girl.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
He was socially awkward, muttered to himself, belched noisily in public and urinated in office wastebaskets.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022
They emptied the wastebaskets, last thing, and Katie salvaged the longer bits of discarded chalk and the pencils that were not too stubby.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
