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How to use wastebasket in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wastebasket? Here are some examples.

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Simon left, glancing one more time at his discarded cigar in Jim's wastebasket.
He indicated the photo of a really cute guy that was resting at the bottom of her stained glass wastebasket.
The student had her own desk and computer and wastebasket, which they emptied.
She crumpled up the paper she'd been absently doodling on and threw it into the wastebasket.
I sighed, dropped the bag into the wastebasket, and tapped my fingers against the marble counter.
She whetted a rag and wiped the floor as I dumped the sorry sight into the wastebasket.
First, she lines the bottom of a rectangular plastic wastebasket with several thicknesses of black and white newspaper.
A hand reached out awkwardly, bumping her elbow against the roll of toilet paper hanging above a plastic green wastebasket.
Glaring at the milk carton Mercy threw the soaked towel of milk into the green tin wastebasket.
But I do what I can with the plastic by reusing plastic bags to line the wastebasket and by saving plastic containers for other uses.
I slipped off my newer skirt and threw it in the laundry basket opposite the wastebasket and began to unbutton my blouse.
He bent over to grab the brown metal wastebasket and brandish it like a shield, making her laugh.
The student will circle around the pivot, pick up the ball and place it in the wastebasket.
If one of those papers doesn't have a clear purpose that can be determined immediately, it may be overlooked or end up in the wastebasket.
With MAC OS 9.x, you must send both disks to the wastebasket in order to be able to disconnect them.
Brushing crumbs into a wastebasket, Sean started to brew a fresh pot.
After eating her bedtime snack, she put her spoon and glass in the sink that had her dinner dishes, and the empty yogurt container in a nearby wastebasket.
Hey, if you need, that wastebasket makes for a handy bucket, you know.
A wastebasket sat next to a stack of clean paper on the floor.
Beard nodded, and without another word, Kenney flung the work into the wastebasket.
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I rummaged in the wastebasket and uncrumpled the morning's facsimile newspaper.
Then he went to a cabinet and pulled out a Geiger counter, carried it over to the wastebasket.
He had a six-pack of chocolate pudding beside him, and a wastebasket overflowing with food wrappers and boxes.
No mail but a swatch of ads drenched in the season's gladness, and the janitor would never provide a wastebasket in the entry.
These might readily have been consigned to the depths of the wastebasket unopened, unread.
Years ago I must have laughed at it, when I threw my only copy into the wastebasket.
You'll need a large wastebasket and a box of manila folders, and you'll need to free up space in a real file cabinet nearby.
Daniel knocked the ashes from his pipe into the wastebasket.
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