[
UK
/wˈeɪstbɑːskɪt/
]
[ US /ˈweɪstˌbæskət/ ]
[ US /ˈweɪstˌbæskət/ ]
NOUN
- a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish
How To Use wastebasket In A Sentence
- They told us to put the red ballot into envelopes and throw the green ones into the wastebasket.
- Over in the wastebasket was a brown paper bag, rolled back as a sort of liner. The dirty duck
- Simon left, glancing one more time at his discarded cigar in Jim's wastebasket.
- Glaring at the milk carton Mercy threw the soaked towel of milk into the green tin wastebasket.
- Leave plate in wastebasket, Missy," he whispered hoarsely. Just Patty
- I slipped off my newer skirt and threw it in the laundry basket opposite the wastebasket and began to unbutton my blouse.
- Dr. Avery took the tongue depressor out of Rae's mouth and tossed it in the white metal wastebasket. SECRETS
- First, she lines the bottom of a rectangular plastic wastebasket with several thicknesses of black and white newspaper.
- A wastebasket sat next to a stack of clean paper on the floor.
- The final section of the show featured a miniature artist's office, with file cabinet, worktable, chair and wastebasket all set out on a funky full-sized work table.