[
UK
/wˈeɪstbɑːskɪt/
]
[ US /ˈweɪstˌbæskət/ ]
[ US /ˈweɪstˌbæskət/ ]
NOUN
- 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.