wastebasket
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The wastebasket at the Andaz Lisbon was so small I seriously thought it was an umbrella holder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Do it once, but make sure to sit beside a wastebasket.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
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
Dorian picked up a cowboy boot from which a heel had been broken and dropped it into a wastebasket, wondering whether that impossible Ignatius J. Reilly was all right.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
When that happens, residents are forced to defecate in wastebaskets in their rooms and then, he said, take “the walk of shame” to deposit their feces in hallway trash rooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
She herself had emptied the wastebaskets as a little girl.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
Functional pieces such as glassware, towels and wastebaskets don’t have to be boring.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022
The Knight Bus rolled through the darkness, scattering bushes and wastebaskets, telephone booths and trees, and Harry lay, restless and miserable, on his feather bed.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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