[
US
/ˈæʃˌtɹeɪ/
]
[ UK /ˈæʃtɹeɪ/ ]
[ UK /ˈæʃtɹeɪ/ ]
NOUN
- a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes
How To Use ashtray In A Sentence
- Ruth Hawkin was sitting at the kitchen table, a forgotten cigarette in the ashtray next to her transformed into three inches of marled grey ash. A Place of Execution
- Now he sits before a half-drunk coffee, a plate of untouched biscuits and an overflowing ashtray.
- I tapped ashes from my cigarette into an ashtray on the floor and decided to take her up on the offer.
- The old pub ashtray was beautifully made and designed, produced in limited numbers and has great nostalgic value, he argues. Times, Sunday Times
- Outside, green plastic garden furniture, creaking in the sun, each empty table complete with at least one crumb from a previous occupant and a chromed ashtray not quite empty.
- She turned to Jen, who had just put her cigarette out in the ashtray beside her.
- He notices, on the outer surface of the ashtray, a diagram of the shifting pattern of the four-speed transmission.
- He reached over into aii ashtray and took out a fat joint.
- The cheeky thieves replaced the photos with a Dot Cotton ashtray.
- And he was a chain-smoker, so whenever he was shooting a scene, there'd be an ashtray nearby. Endeavour: an inspector recalled