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waste-paper basket

noun as in wastepaper basket

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Example Sentences

My lean is usually being doubled-over, dry-retching into a waste paper basket.

Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.

And as he said this he rose, screwed up the sheet of thin note-paper, and tossed it into the waste-paper basket.

The card he tore into small fragments and cast into a waste paper basket under one of the hall tables.

She was too hurt by the way he thrust all his reviews into the waste-paper basket, without showing them to her.

The covering of a broken demijohn was used in the manner shown as a waste-paper basket.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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