Thesaurus / wastebasket
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I finished cleaning out my desk and took a wastebasket full of papers to the back shop.
NINE MEN IN TIMENOEL MILLER LOOMIS
Bassett winnowed these carefully, brushing the chaff into his wastebasket and retaining a few kernels for later use.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSON
Anything like that I always take and I tear up and put in the wastebasket.
WARREN COMMISSION (7 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. VII (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Hall went through the wastebasket, the clothes hanging in the closet, every drawer in the bureau.
THE FIVE ARROWSALLAN CHASE
She tossed a slip into the wastebasket beside her and glanced at the next slip.
ULLER UPRISINGHENRY BEAM PIPER, JOHN D. CLARK AND JOHN F. CARR
He darted forward himself, snatched a small rug from the floor, and began beating at the flaming wastebasket.
BLACK STAR'S CAMPAIGNJOHNSTON MCCULLEY
No more would he curl himself contentedly to sleep in editorial chairs; no more make his bed in the office wastebasket.
HEMPFIELDDAVID GRAYSON
The letter was thrown into the wastebasket of forgetfulness, and Thomas Paine remained condemned to death.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, VOL. 3 (OF 12)ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Granning came in as he was sitting by the wastebasket and slowly tearing this letter into minute shreds.
MAKING MONEYOWEN JOHNSON
It was Osaki's daily business to empty the wastebasket; the plate in due course would be restored to its shelf.
JUST PATTYJEAN WEBSTER
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.