wastebasket

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• It will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten.

• Beard nodded, and without another word, Kenney flung the work into the wastebasket.

• What did you do—go through his wastebasket and find his pay stub?

• Well, ultimately, the screenplay is the only part of a movie that you can fit into a wastebasket.

• I even remember throwing the pieces into the round wooden wastebasket in our living room.

• I finished cleaning out my desk and took a wastebasket full of papers to the back shop.

• Bassett winnowed these carefully, brushing the chaff into his wastebasket and retaining a few kernels for later use.

• Anything like that I always take and I tear up and put in the wastebasket.

• Hall went through the wastebasket, the clothes hanging in the closet, every drawer in the bureau.

• She tossed a slip into the wastebasket beside her and glanced at the next slip.