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Usage examples of ashcan.

You remember, of course, the infamous Ashcan Murder of November 7, 1939?

I should imagine the Perrys would just have thrown it into the ashcan straight away.

Zingerman the painter had a certain integrity, a kind of Ashcan school realism.

So this was what it came to, Ebdus the bridge between Ashcan school schlock and photorealist dragons, a momentary interlude.

Brutus, the evil striped cat, stalked angrily around his feet while Candy, the tortoiseshell, cried piteously, and Ashcan tried to climb his legs.

He let it fall to the table and stood without moving for a time, then shoved Ashcan away and went back to the cat dishes, filled one with food and the other with water to shut up the beasts.

Kelly noticed what was going on around us, got an ashcan cover, and ran into the pissoir, banging the walls.

When the ashcans burst, it was like a kick in the ass from an elephant.

I thought of the gang dumping ashcans on Third Avenue and soaping up the windows.

Robin and I had gone with him to the art museum and he had looked at the pictures the way someone who understands pictures does, talking about how much he liked the Ashcan painters, why Fauvism stank because of the vulgar colors.

I heard the clang of the ashcans as the first superin tendent came out of his basement apartment, tucked away in the alley, dropping the coal's excrement on my snow.

The depth-charge launcher was a new gadget, the Ericsson one of the first ships in the Navy to use it instead of simply rolling the ashcans off the stern.

Tiny dark stores on each side of the cluttered streets, overflowing ashcans, the pavement littered with pieces of broken bottles, drab painted signs that advertised Coca-Cola in big letters and the name of the store in small.

One of a multitude of busy ants, forever scrounging the ashcans of talent.

Next, attach an ashcan fire cracker (M-80) or a cherry bomb to the side of the bottle using epoxy glue.