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
  • For years, the wastebasket was the least glamorous object in the room.
    — Jaha Nailah Avery, Architectural Digest, 15 June 2026
  • Any open space in the tier gets filled with chowder like wastebaskets and small, light cartons.
    — Longreads, 21 Sep. 2017
  • His allies then cleared out, taking the wastebasket with them.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • The pitcher is placed in a large wastebasket and given a beer shower.
    — Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
  • First, collect any small bags that are full (such as those from bathroom wastebaskets) and add them to the kitchen trash.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Two were discarded on the floor, and a glance into the wastebasket revealed at least two more.
    — Ben Grenrock, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
  • Or a wastebasket emoji plus a pickup truck to symbolize a garbage truck.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • 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
  • This trend should be in the same wastebasket as mullets, microwave dinners and inflated lips.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • At the end of a hallway, the final office on the left contained a desk, a wastebasket and a television.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Use it for throws, pet toys, umbrellas, or even as an elevated wastebasket.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • Add a small rug, plants and a wastebasket, and install organizers to hold your office supplies.
    — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
  • Buffett has also auctioned ties, books and even an office wastebasket, to raise funds for worthy causes.
    — Reuters, WIRED, 27 Dec. 1999
  • The wastebasket fire was put out without calling firefighters.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2017
  • Milton flings footballs like most people toss paper into a wastebasket.
    — Chris Hays, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • When her creations meet their demise, the result doesn’t necessarily wind up in a wastebasket.
    — Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • This photo was rescued a half-century ago from a tax assessor’s wastebasket.
    — Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Safety tips ▪ Always keep space heaters at least three feet away from furniture, wastebaskets or anything that may be flammable.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Layer in choice accessories such as a wastebasket, towel ring and toilet paper holder.
    — Lisa Marie Hart, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Instead, Kranz had to remove water bottles and empty wastebaskets from the consoles after the tours.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • There is nothing appealing about being people’s emotional wastebasket, and that is not in your job description.
    — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • 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

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