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

Remarkably, I listened, and later found the perfect outlet for my manuscript — a seagrass wastebasket, a bit worn, but quite poetic in its own way.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

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 • Dec. 15, 2021

“Anyway”—he crumpled the paper with the hole from the groom and the image of the bride and tossed it, basketball-style, into the dull gray wastebasket ten feet away—“the Great Hunter rides solo.”

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King