wastebasket

Example Sentences

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As Politico first reported in 2018, aides constantly had to fish torn bits of paper out of wastebaskets and painstakingly reassemble them.

From Washington Post

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

He was socially awkward, muttered to himself, belched noisily in public and urinated in office wastebaskets.

From Washington Post

“I took it off and I threw it in my bathroom wastebasket,” she said.

From Seattle Times

Kids might not yell his name the way they hollered “KOBE!” as they faded away and tossed a rolled up piece of paper toward the wastebasket.

From Washington Post