What is "wastebasket"

Usage examples of "wastebasket".

Snatching up her plastic toiletries kit from the back of the sink, she crammed it down between the etagere and wastebasket.

His paper was a much-crumpled piece that he had found that morning in the wastebasket, and as yet his writing and spelling were poor enough, but he knew what he wanted to express, and this is what he wrote: DEAR BISHOP: I hav ben mene and bad i am not def and dum but i acted like i was caus I thot you wood not kepe me if yu knu I am sory now so i am going away but i am going to kepe strate and not bee bad any more ever.

Vimhoff was supposed to get our offices cleaned twice a week and I realized with a flash of lawyerly insight that the overflowing wastebaskets were my defense to being late with the rent.

Hal was on the edge of the bed with one leg up and his chin on its knee, clipping his nails into a wastebasket that sat several meters away in the middle of the room.

Karl Slivowitz tried to rise from the upturned wastebasket but failed.

There was a wastebasket, and a dimmable torchiere in the corner to provide light if the shutters were closed.

I banged into one of the desks, overturned a wastebasket, then finally reached the opposite wall.

Feinberg cried into the pad of wadded Kleenex, threw it into the deskside wastebasket, and reached for more.

I was nearly in tears when I finally called a halt, bending over, trying to catch my breath, washed up at twenty-eight and resigned to a future of crumpled pieces of paper and khaki wastebaskets in the rooms of marooned hotels.

The only distinction I can claim is that my botches end up in my own wastebasket.

The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket.

Hal spits Kodiak tobacco juice into an old rocket-emblazoned NASA glass on the bedside table, idly and for no special reason riffling through densely packed letters tri-folded and packed upright, a kind of Rolodex of different mementos and postal correspondence Mario's rescued from wastebaskets and recycling bins and dumpsters and quietly saved in shoeboxes.

He downed the last of the coconut milk and tossed the can into a wastebasket.

She banged into a wastebasket made of an elephant's foot-a thing that had always filled her with horror.

Qwilleran's eyes, known for their doleful expression and drooping lids, roamed over the clutter on the editor's desk, the crumpled paper that had missed the wastebasket, the half-open file drawers, the stacks of out-of-town newspapers.