What is "wastepaper"

Usage examples of "wastepaper".

She sounded perfectly calm when she said it, too, and yet Teddy Tumtum, who had almost succeeded in hauling himself out of the wastepaper basket, took one look at her and promptly dropped back down to safety.

Shortly, when he re-engaged, I would either be a butterfly pinned to that wall, or stumble over something unseen, go arsy-versy, then spiked like wastepaper in the park.

Leaving his newspaper to confide its black tidings to the fag ends in the wastepaper basket and his mail to gather what dust it wished upon the doormat, Neville the part-time barman flip-flopped away up the Swans twenty-six stairs to his cornflakes and a cup of the blackest of all black coffees.

He bent forward, held his cup above the wastepaper basket, and expertly flipped the foreign body into it using his spoon.

One of the Captain's assistants was unsuccessfully lofting paper airplanes toward his wastepaper basket.

But in her mind was a vivid picture of Lester stuffed into one of his wastepaper baskets.

The mayor fell into a reverie, and slowly with twenty-four strokes of his stylus drew six squares in hexagonal arrangements upon the blank top sheet of a pad, which he tore off, folded neatly in three parts and slipped into the wastepaper slot at his right hand.