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receptacle
noun as in container for disposal, storage
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Which causes all of the caterpillars to fall out of the hedge and into your receptacles.
It looks at how people share information, and how sometimes we rely on others as being the information receptacle.
Inventions like the Lapee female urinal, a pink cubicle in which the user squats over an oval-shaped receptacle to relieve herself, can help gather this pure pee.
The hotel didn’t have any trash receptacles for the lobby and had to borrow some from a neighboring property that has been closed since the start of the pandemic.
Also, some form of trash receptacle would be welcomed, as we were often stumbling around our bag of trash and sticking it beneath the dinette table at night to avoid attracting animals.
The average reader, he declares, is but an unwitting receptacle for media narratives.
Thefacebook was nothing but a platform—a receptacle for the contributions of its users.
As a result, health reform has become a bottomless receptacle for a host of free-floating fears harbored by many Americans.
She was cast into a bare and miserable dungeon, in that subterranean receptacle of woe, where there was not even a bed.
In this shallow receptacle lay an oval miniature which the man took out and held under the strong light of the gas jet.
Strange that he should be thus happy in a receptacle of so much pain and sorrow; yet he was light-hearted as the son of a grandee.
The letter f marks a receptacle for water, which seems to have been used for moistening the bread while baking.
Ida, awakened by her movements, watched her as she produced a tiny packet from the last-mentioned receptacle.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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