Place for your butt

Usage examples of ashtray.

I can put out the duckbilled platypus ashtray my mates gave me when I was leaving the Outback?

He batted at it gummily, smacking his lips against the ashtray taste in his mouth.

Several times I had woken up in the night to make sure all the cigarette butts in the ashtray beside her were out, looking under the bed in case one had fallen there.

Among all the possessions he had in that deep room with the frieze of live swallows, the African drums each with its ashtray and pipe beside each chair, the collection of Malian and Nigerian masks on the walls, the Fon hangings, the rugs from Khartoum with their counter-pattern of his pipe-burnings, the wall covered with shelves of damp books that gave the place its own body-smell-there must have been that same novel.

The other ashtray on the floor by his chair is full of the ragged little new moons of bitten nails, which has got to mean that the Hester T.

He got to his feet and picked up the slender panetella from his ashtray.

A loaf of titi bread and a wax paper packet of homemade Jamaican-style jerky had disappeared, along with the stub end of a cigar-shaped spliff the Rastaman vaguely remembered having left in the conch shell ashtray.

The carapace of the instrument binnacle, the inclined planes of the dashboard panel, the metal sills of the radio and ashtrays gleamed around me like altarpieces, their geometries reaching towards my body like the stylized embraces of some hyper-cerebral machine.

Together we showed our wounds to each other, exposing the scars on our chests and hands to the beckoning injury sites on the interior of the car, to the pointed sills of the chromium ashtrays, to the lights of a distant intersection.

She walks around the desk and she sits down and she pushes an ashtray toward me.

The Dutch-style row houses had been chopped into pieces and misused as rooming houses for men with hot plates and ashtrays and racing forms, or floor-through apartments, where sprawling families of cousins were crammed into each level, their yards and stoops teeming with uncountable children.

The storyboards were already set up in the front of the room, and Janis had seen to coffee and ashtrays.

He left the cigarette to burn in the ashtray on the bedstand and rolled out of bed to cross the room.

Some were sitting on the stools, gazing at their reflections in the mirrors, smoking cigarettes, tapping their ashes on the rims of the ashtrays on the tabletops, sipping white wine or rattling the ice cubes in their drinks.

Food for Africa program kill off donations to these missions and knock out their Voice of Salvation radio over there have you got an ashtray?