waste basket

Example Sentences

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I hacked, while mint-green "Exorcist"-like fluid sprayed out of my mouth and into a waste basket.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2023

Selma Dabbagh wrote us an abandoned love letter, retrieved from a hotel waste basket and sent as a scrumpled ball.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2016

The gal there said, ‘If somebody doesn’t pick it up, I’m throwing it in the waste basket.’

From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2015

At first, armed only with a mesh waste basket and a broom, the couple looked over matched for the pile of snow that fenced in their car.

From Chicago Tribune • Feb. 2, 2015

Leslie sat way up in the front corner nowhere near the waste basket or pencil sharpener, so there was no way he could pretend to be heading somewhere else and sneak a word with her.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson