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wastebasket

[ UK /wˈe‍ɪstbɑːskɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈweɪstˌbæskət/ ]
NOUN
  1. a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish

How To Use wastebasket In A Sentence

  • Ah, was opposite, even a big wastebasket.
  • Sometimes the wastebasket is exposed," said Joel Joves, a designer with offices in Rancho Santa Fe and Beverly Hills. Boing Boing: October 6, 2002 - October 12, 2002 Archives
  • She whetted a rag and wiped the floor as I dumped the sorry sight into the wastebasket.
  • Right on the floor by the exit was a small blue wastebasket.
  • Hey, if you need, that wastebasket makes for a handy bucket, you know.
  • The student had her own desk and computer and wastebasket, which they emptied.
  • Ah, was opposite, even a big wastebasket.
  • Also canny was the "nine-foot rule": if a wastebasket is within nine feet, Buffington says, children will gamely try to use it; farther than that, they won't. Marshal Plan
  • Adult attention deficit disorder is quickly becoming the new gay "wastebasket," or faddish diagnosis some doctors and patients are clinging to in an effort to keep up with our 24-7 culture. Advocate.com Daily News
  • While nobody was looking, she squashed her school hat and crammed it into a wastebasket.
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