How to Use receptacle in a Sentence

receptacle

noun
  • She used the box as a receptacle for her jewelry.
  • They can be placed in a locked room or placed in a locked receptacle.
    — Jamie Gold, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That receptacle must be in a car.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Hooks for my pot holders, a receptacle in which my sponges can rest and drain.
    — Jhumpa Lahiri, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Each program has its own receptacles and its own rules about what does and doesn’t go in.
    — Idaho Statesman, 9 July 2024
  • Please place any trash receptacles in hallways and turn out lights.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • While some pieces may sit in a buffet or a kitchen shelf most of the year, big events call for big receptacles.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 14 June 2025
  • The east end of the street is blocked by bollards screwed into receptacles.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • It was staffed by two attendants and had three stalls, plus a trash receptacle.
    — Cynthia Hubert and Ryan Lillis, sacbee, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Each of these spines is in contact with a glass receptacle filled with acids and placed within the mine.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Some reptiles were found in wood coffins and birds in pottery receptacles.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Go inside a post office and place your mail inside a receptacle or hand it to a clerk.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The tech detects when your cat has done their business and whisks the yuck into a waste receptacle.
    — Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2022
  • There are toilets and trash receptacles at the parking lot.
    — R. Scott Rappold, Denver Post, 1 June 2026
  • Not that tying your own garbage bag is difficult, but why not snag a receptacle that does it for you?
    — Popular Science, 17 Dec. 2019
  • These are whisked to the third receptacle, called a calciner.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Electric dryers now use a four-prong plug and receptacle instead of a three-prong type.
    — Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Keep in Mind The plug is on the heavier side and may pull away from the receptacle.
    — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2024
  • These packets can then be wrapped around the receptacle holding the donor organ.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The biggest changes will be in scheduling and the type of receptacle that will be used to handle the waste.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 24 June 2019
  • Guests could pull a line out of a stainless-steel disc on one wall and attach it to a receptacle on another.
    — Steve Bailey, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Her body was found the next day in a trash receptacle on the base near the living quarters for single soldiers.
    — Krcg Staff, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The idea is to have a receptacle that stores enough water to provide a drinking water source and a bathing pool.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
  • And maybe that makes people treat me like some sort of receptacle for all their grief and rage and disappointment.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 19 Aug. 2018
  • Mcneill has found joy in tending to his beloved yard again and using power tools to build a wood trash bin receptacle.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Teague took off running and soared over the receptacle, then relished the astonished cheers of those who had put him up to it.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Wilcox of Chicago for use as a paper receptacle.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • The gun was found outside the mall, under a trash receptacle, Richardson said.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • Space toilets use air flow to pull urine and feces away and into receptacles, which are stored for disposal.
    — Bymary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The housing for the treats, within the body, was either a glass bottle or a cardboard receptacle.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 29 Jan. 2018

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