wastebasket

noun

waste·bas·ket ˈwās(t)-ˌba-skət

: a receptacle for refuse and especially for wastepaper

called also wastepaper basket

Examples of wastebasket in a Sentence

She tossed the wrapper into the wastebasket.

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In a 1988 promotional ad for WXYZ-TV’s weathercasters, Jerry Hodak threw a crumpled piece of paper over his shoulder, which Rob Kress caught in a wastebasket without even looking away from his desk. —

Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2024 There’s another issue in 205, something about an overflowing wastebasket. —

Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024 For added freshness, soak a cotton round in drops of your favorite essential oil before replacing the garbage bag in your wastebasket. —

Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2024 The Architect’s Classroom features stools that raise and lower, adjustable drafting tables and a wastebasket unfathomably made up of 1,020 solder joints. —

Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for wastebasket