How to Use wastebasket in a Sentence
wastebasket
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Take the concept of the album and throw it in the wastebasket.
—Kathy Cichon, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
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Any open space in the tier gets filled with chowder like wastebaskets and small, light cartons.
—Longreads, 21 Sep. 2017
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The pitcher is placed in a large wastebasket and given a beer shower.
—Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
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Two were discarded on the floor, and a glance into the wastebasket revealed at least two more.
—Ben Grenrock, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
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Put a small wastebasket in the TV room with a plastic liner for all the wet tissues and used wipes, and empty it once or twice a day.
—Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
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His allies then cleared out, taking the wastebasket with them.
—New York Times, 1 June 2021
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In the months before the big fire, there were at least two minor fires in the Res Club, originating on a paper plate and in a wastebasket.
—New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
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But is that any less crazy than the fact — emphasis on fact — that the Pentagon planted a spy in the Nixon White House to steal secrets from the wastebaskets?
—Glenn Garvin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
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In the bathroom, open the shower curtain, remove all toiletries and wastebaskets, and close the toilet lid.
—Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
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One investor is shown slitting his wrists with a box cutter over a wastebasket so as not to make too big a mess with his suicide.
—David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2017
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What do city council members use to line their wastebaskets?
—Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 27 Dec. 2019
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Or a wastebasket emoji plus a pickup truck to symbolize a garbage truck.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
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One day last August, Martha Ellis heard noises coming from a wastebasket in the corner of the bedroom.
—Kathryn True, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
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Inevitably some of their many plans fell away, much as a writer's first, second, and third drafts often wind up in the wastebasket on the road to publication.
—John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
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Police said the only sign of struggle was an overturned wastebasket.
—Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
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In February 1991, Williams received a letter that could not be confused, dismissed, or thrown in the wastebasket.
—Eric Lewis, Esquire, 17 Nov. 2016
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Add a small rug, plants and a wastebasket, and install organizers to hold your office supplies.
—Washington Post, 27 May 2021
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Instead, Kranz had to remove water bottles and empty wastebaskets from the consoles after the tours.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 July 2019
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Seatback pocket Passengers have been known to treat the pocket on the seat in front of them as a wastebasket, stuffing trash, dirty tissues, used diapers and more into the pouch.
—Julia Zorthian, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
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Walpole plays the titular Agnes, a 21-year-old novice nun suspected of giving birth at her convent, then strangling the newborn and discarding the body in a wastebasket.
—Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
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Buffett has also auctioned ties, books and even an office wastebasket, to raise funds for worthy causes.
—Reuters, WIRED, 27 Dec. 1999
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In the opening minutes, a static shot shows a small boy sitting on the bathroom floor absent-mindedly munching on a plastic wastebasket.
—Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
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Having a sensible, lid-free wastebasket will prevent clutter and garbage from lingering in your work area.
—Anna Goldfarb, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
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The wastebasket fire was put out without calling firefighters.
—Washington Post, 11 May 2017
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Two girls wore clear raincoats and carried plastic wastebaskets, symbolizing the containers set out to catch water from the leaks in the Hinsdale Middle School roof.
—Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
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According to plumbing company Boulden Brothers, these are frequently the cause of clogs and should always be thrown out in a wastebasket instead.
—Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 29 June 2018
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There were wastebaskets catching rainwater seeping through the ceiling, cardboard and wood chips and carpets meant to soak up days worth of dampness at Pimlico Race Course.
—Melissa Hoppert, New York Times, 19 May 2018
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Hadley famously oversaw a renovation of the Neighborhood House's lobby in the 1970s and led a group in painting wastebaskets to sell at the House's annual Christmas bazaar.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
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This photo was rescued a half-century ago from a tax assessor’s wastebasket.
—Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
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One day Letty noticed that a wastebasket under the bar was missing a magnetic lid known as a silverware trap, which catches utensils from sliding through a slot into the waste.
—Rick Montgomery, kansascity, 10 June 2018
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