Five kittens playing in a wastepaper basket come close. From Wordnik.com. [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference
Now, he reaches down and picks up the wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2006] Reference
An embroidered Turkish textile became a wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [An Artist Transforms a Museum's Leftovers] Reference
They would then find the packet contained only wastepaper. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
His other garments were stuffed into the wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [Next Of Kin]
I just tore it up and threw it into the wastepaper basket. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]
From under his desk he pulled out the large tin wastepaper bin. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
She'd noticed that there were no maxi-pads in the wastepaper basket!. From Wordnik.com. [The Store]
He finished his Reese's, tossed the wrapper in the wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [The Store]
Mary threw a soiled tissue into the wastepaper basket and turned round. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
He found a cigar, bit off the tip, and spat it into the wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Rain]
A second form followed the first into the wastepaper basket, and then a third. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100]
There was a desk with a computer, two filing cabinets, and a wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero]
Obviously this must have been because no wastepaper receptacle was within reach. From Wordnik.com. [Broadcasting board decides Voice of America can peruse WikiLeak documents] Reference
The cold grate was used as ashtray and wastepaper basket and was rarely emptied. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
The wastepaper basket was already filled with refuse from the previous occupant. From Wordnik.com. [Alice Singleton: Gitmo on California and Foster- Part Three: Left to Rot for Twenty Grand a Day] Reference
He yanked the telephone receivers out of the wastepaper basket and replaced them. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
Sighing, I disconnected and dropped three months 'work into the wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
Since the buckets were in the attic, all we had was Peter's metal wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary Of A Young Girl]
He tossed a screwed-up Mullett memo in the air and headed it into the wastepaper bin. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Frost]
The other daily papers I buy, are also tinkering on the edge of my wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The wastepaper bin had been recently emptied and contained only a torn window envelope. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Frost]
He crumpled up the sheet with his doodle on it and dropped it into the wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [Farthing] Reference
On school note paper, wastepaper, watercolor sheets tossed to the floor in Edith's studio. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
I looked through them quickly, hovering them over the heap bound for the wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
Spurred on by that discovery, he returned to the bedroom and checked the wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [Texas! Lucky]
Webberly squatted by the wastepaper basket and used a pen to right it, having a look inside. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
Dirk courteously picked a telephone receiver out of the wastepaper bin and handed it to him. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
Now he knew why Millie's side of the bed was so neat: the cupboard was like a wastepaper bin. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Causes]
Some of the other daily papers I buy, are also tinkering on the edge of my wastepaper basket. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He motioned with his head towards a lacquered leather wastepaper bin under the dressing table. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
Lembede told Sapa the fire department had said the fire seemed to have started in wastepaper bin. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A battered chipboard veneer desk, an old grey filing cabinet and a dark green tin wastepaper bin. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
Lucky tossed his empty disposable coffee cup into the wastepaper basket and ambled toward the door. From Wordnik.com. [Texas! Lucky]
He did not recognize his room, looking up from the ground, at the bent legs of the table, at the wastepaper basket, and the tiger-skin rug. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
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