ashcan
Example Sentences
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The 1940s sundered the 20th century, dispatching an entire global framework and any number of abiding social orders to the ashcan of history.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2018
Even the ashcan colors and chiaroscuro lighting brighten.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2011
It was swept up and dropped in an ashcan and there the eldest of the Martins' four children, a lively, questing, eleven-year-old named Shirley Anne, found it.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few hot embers glow in this musical ashcan.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was only an ashcan you bumped into.
From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie
