wastebasket

Example Sentences

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These commitments are important, as they give Kennedy something to wad up and christen his wastebasket with when he steps into his new office.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2025

This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2024

Panicked and still in the bathroom, using her smartphone to get help, she found my video, watched it and then used the wastebasket in the bathroom as her bucket.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

In one instance, he admitted writing an incriminating message known as the “dig note” — a possible to-do list found in a wastebasket in his Westchester house in 1982.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

Then I looked, and Doctor Nolan looked, at the wastebasket beside my bureau.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath