wastepaper basket BrE
wastebasket AmE , auch: waste-basket AmE

"And the contents of the wastepaper baskets, where are they?"

He showed me a whole wastepaper basket full of used condoms.

He looked round to see whether it had fallen in the wastepaper basket.

Then his eye fell on the wastepaper basket, and he picked it up.

This is what one should do with great wealth, not buy gold wastepaper baskets.

"I took a good look at the desk and the wastepaper basket.

Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke.

He reached for the wastepaper basket and heaved into it.

It was a good thing, as Fa said, that the house had so many wastepaper baskets.

He saw the telephone in the wastepaper basket and put it back onto the hook.

They were handed me by the various people concerned or collected from the wastepaper basket.

He scattered the pieces in the wastepaper basket and went out to breakfast.

He let the soggy letter splash into the wastepaper basket.

Of course I threw the thing into the wastepaper basket without more ado.

I will tell you, you drop it into the wastepaper basket.

Throw it into the wastepaper basket, do they not?

I might never finish it, and it'll wind up in the wastepaper basket or the stove.

He picked up his detailed notes and tossed them into the wastepaper basket.

"This was found in your wastepaper basket," my inquisitor declared.

"But I haven't said a word," came a surprised voice from the direction of the wastepaper basket.

Stoddard got up, put the wastepaper basket back on the chair, and shook his head.

Adrienne looked around, then reached into the wastepaper basket beside the desk.

A wastepaper basket in which or under which is a clue.

She reached into Alex's wastepaper basket and fished out the message slip.

He screwed the note up and threw it in the general direction of the wastepaper basket.

"And why has she got her head in my wastebasket?"

How does the design of a wastebasket change somebody's life?

On the floor there was nothing loose but the wastebasket.

I'll let you have them, later on - in the wastebasket.

There was a copy of the Times in his wastebasket.

Then he looked down to see Meredith with his head still in the wastebasket.

So I tossed a year's work into the wastebasket, and started all over again.

She tossed both into the wastebasket and turned back to him.

They know, of course, that putting it all behind them will take much more than a wastebasket.

They did not understand that in the newspaper business it is a big deal if you get a private wastebasket.

I held it over the wastebasket and brushed them off.

She dropped the pieces of paper back in the wastebasket.

She dropped it in the wastebasket and returned to the table.

"I must have taken the wrong paper from the wastebasket.

She went over to the desk and picked up the wastebasket.

Then he locked the car and walked out to the street, looking for a wastebasket.

He picked up the book and let it drop into the wastebasket.

Somebody could have thrown it in the wastebasket without looking.

I emptied the wastebasket and put the stuff back in.

He followed her to the kitchen, and she pointed to a wastebasket.

The first thing I suggest is to put a wastebasket, and a big one, next to the desk.

It's easy to imagine all our letters in a wastebasket.

On top of the wastebasket was an open toilet seat.

You can land an object in the wastebasket over your shoulder.

She tossed the paper ball into the center of the wastebasket.