How to Use ashtray in a Sentence

ashtray

noun

• Her right hand gripped the edge of a coffee table strewn with clutter: two lighters, a can of Coca-Cola, an ashtray containing three cigarette butts, a bulbous glass pipe, a small plastic bag.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
• Gavitt and his wife were smokers, and an ashtray was in the room.
  — Ed White, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2018
• Well, if Cyrus is an ashtray, the hosts asked, then what is Tom Waits?
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 5 Sep. 2024
• At one point, red-eyed Ray set the ashtray on fire, melting the dash.
  — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Can’t forget the rocks and shells in the ashtray, the masks slung around the rearview mirror, or the dinosaur toy glued to the dash.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2021
• His last cigar was sitting in an ashtray by the jacuzzi.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• If smoking is banned on planes, what's with all the ashtrays?
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 18 Sep. 2017
• Bonus round: What about those throwback ashtrays and the 'Mile High Club'?
  — NBC News, 7 June 2019
• And there's room at the bar with large ashtrays and an array of fine wines, craft beers and liquor to choose from.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 31 July 2017
• But there was a stack of fancy ashtrays in the living room of the Maisel house where Moishe and Shirley lived.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 May 2023
• The passage of time is measured in the fullness of ashtrays.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
• Freddie, by the way, is not the only one bludgeoned in the head with that ashtray.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
• Sutterley said the items showed that Lopez used the glass as a makeshift ashtray, and had been drinking through the night.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2019
• There was also an ashtray with the figure in the center.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
• There was wine and cheese and people in uniforms who emptied the ashtrays.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
• When asked about the odor, the girlfriend admitted there were roaches in the ashtray.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2020
• Old rags hardened by paint and ashtrays sat on tables; his trench coat hung on a wall.
  — Dina Gachman, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2023
• A tough lady who would hit you with an ashtray, lamp, anything, as soon as not.
  — Maria Carter, Country Living, 13 Aug. 2017
• As a bonus, like the prior offerings, the box turns over to become an ashtray.
  — Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2021
• The ashtray used to bash in her head could also have usable samples.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• The General gave me a warm smile, putting out his cigarette in the cut glass ashtray.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2018
• An apology should be like a clean ashtray, no butts at all.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
• This book is Morris’s attempt to throw that ashtray back.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Police then found small rocks of crack cocaine in the ashtray-cupholder.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2019
• The deputy observed a couple of roaches near the cup holder ashtray.
  — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 21 July 2019
• In the cluttered house, cigarette butts are piled in an ashtray.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• Those ashtrays seem to have had better results than the signs, but still have not ended the problem.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 July 2018
• Bailey shows in the video the packaging the ashtray arrived in: a black box with the Dolce & Gabbana Casa logo in white.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
• Get ready to see #OneTexas and One Texas t-shirts, bumper stickers, shot glasses and ashtrays.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 20 Feb. 2018
• The grace gave way to loads of treasures, from Do Not Disturb signs and ashtrays to complete sets of china and cutlery.
  — Sarah Bray, Town & Country, 6 Oct. 2014

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024