How to Use wastebasket in a Sentence

wastebasket

noun

• She tossed the wrapper into the wastebasket.
• Take the concept of the album and throw it in the wastebasket.
  — Kathy Cichon, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
• Any open space in the tier gets filled with chowder like wastebaskets and small, light cartons.
  — Longreads, 21 Sep. 2017
• The pitcher is placed in a large wastebasket and given a beer shower.
  — Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Two were discarded on the floor, and a glance into the wastebasket revealed at least two more.
  — Ben Grenrock, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
• Put a small wastebasket in the TV room with a plastic liner for all the wet tissues and used wipes, and empty it once or twice a day.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• His allies then cleared out, taking the wastebasket with them.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2021
• In the months before the big fire, there were at least two minor fires in the Res Club, originating on a paper plate and in a wastebasket.
  — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
• But is that any less crazy than the fact — emphasis on fact — that the Pentagon planted a spy in the Nixon White House to steal secrets from the wastebaskets?
  — Glenn Garvin, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
• In the bathroom, open the shower curtain, remove all toiletries and wastebaskets, and close the toilet lid.
  — Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• One investor is shown slitting his wrists with a box cutter over a wastebasket so as not to make too big a mess with his suicide.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• What do city council members use to line their wastebaskets?
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 27 Dec. 2019
• Or a wastebasket emoji plus a pickup truck to symbolize a garbage truck.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• One day last August, Martha Ellis heard noises coming from a wastebasket in the corner of the bedroom.
  — Kathryn True, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
• Inevitably some of their many plans fell away, much as a writer's first, second, and third drafts often wind up in the wastebasket on the road to publication.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
• Police said the only sign of struggle was an overturned wastebasket.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
• In February 1991, Williams received a letter that could not be confused, dismissed, or thrown in the wastebasket.
  — Eric Lewis, Esquire, 17 Nov. 2016
• Add a small rug, plants and a wastebasket, and install organizers to hold your office supplies.
  — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
• Instead, Kranz had to remove water bottles and empty wastebaskets from the consoles after the tours.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 July 2019
• Seatback pocket Passengers have been known to treat the pocket on the seat in front of them as a wastebasket, stuffing trash, dirty tissues, used diapers and more into the pouch.
  — Julia Zorthian, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
• Walpole plays the titular Agnes, a 21-year-old novice nun suspected of giving birth at her convent, then strangling the newborn and discarding the body in a wastebasket.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• Buffett has also auctioned ties, books and even an office wastebasket, to raise funds for worthy causes.
  — Reuters, WIRED, 27 Dec. 1999
• In the opening minutes, a static shot shows a small boy sitting on the bathroom floor absent-mindedly munching on a plastic wastebasket.
  — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
• Having a sensible, lid-free wastebasket will prevent clutter and garbage from lingering in your work area.
  — Anna Goldfarb, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
• The wastebasket fire was put out without calling firefighters.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• Two girls wore clear raincoats and carried plastic wastebaskets, symbolizing the containers set out to catch water from the leaks in the Hinsdale Middle School roof.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
• According to plumbing company Boulden Brothers, these are frequently the cause of clogs and should always be thrown out in a wastebasket instead.
  — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 29 June 2018
• There were wastebaskets catching rainwater seeping through the ceiling, cardboard and wood chips and carpets meant to soak up days worth of dampness at Pimlico Race Course.
  — Melissa Hoppert, New York Times, 19 May 2018
• Hadley famously oversaw a renovation of the Neighborhood House's lobby in the 1970s and led a group in painting wastebaskets to sell at the House's annual Christmas bazaar.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 3 May 2019
• This photo was rescued a half-century ago from a tax assessor’s wastebasket.
  — Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024