They accepted the chairs with a frigid, "Thank you," and sat stiffly upright staring at the wastebasket in their most distant society manner.
Patty placed her second roll in the wastebasket in company with the turkey plate, and was just starting on the gingerbread, when a scrambling sounded at the end window.
Without a word to Mrs. Miles he looked closely at the top of the dressing-table and into the small wastebasket that stood beside it.
But he had been just a shade cleverer than she, for he had been in this room ahead of her, and there had been no balls of greasy face tissue in the wastebasket then!
I don't want the place searched for it, but if it happens to be in the wastebasket be sure I get it.
Quickly, but efficiently, Todd examined the room--even inspecting the bits of paper in the wastebasket and pawing over the books which lined the mantel.
Unlike Black Sorter, Pink Wastebasket was very delicate, though highly intuitive--the machine equivalent of a White Russian countess.
Pink Wastebaskethaughtily inhaled the offending envelope and almost instantly turned a bright crimson and began to tremble.
Pink Wastebasket gently regurgitated her last snack, turned dead white, gave a last flicker and shake, and expired.
Pink Wastebasket is dead and at this very instant, if we're lucky, three police machines of the toughest blued steel are holding down Black Sorter and putting a muzzle on him.
Normally I'd have asked you to have Pink Wastebasket try her skill on it, but.
The human being walked respectfully around Pink Wastebasket several times and then gave her a nervous little poke with a rubber-handled probe.
This remnant of what you have just admitted to have been your photograph also was found in the very condition in which you see it now, in the wastebasket of the room where Madame Duclos lodged previous to her flight to the Catskills.
A few minutes later, this clue was in the wastebasket outside.
Looking for a wastebasket and finding none, he was about to drop the fragments in his coat pocket.
Chub often said, “The first person to hit the wastebasket around here will be fired.
You know Edna Ferber’s Dawn O’Hara was rescued from the wastebasket by her sister, so you see!
The staff seldom used the tall, green metal wastebasket in the corner.
He pointed a scornful finger at a metal wastebasket standing in the middle of the street, still smoking faintly but now safely covered with the white foam from chemical extinguishers.
Total damage one wastebasketand a black smudge on about five square feet of wall.
Of course anybody should know better than to throw film into a public wastebasket where it might cause just this kind of trouble.
But before they went inside the shop he called one of his men over and instructed him to take the wastebasket to the firehouse and examine it carefully.
A few minutes later Ken spotted him on the roof of Morris’s two-story building, aiming his lens at the crowd below and at the small foam-shrouded wastebasket at its center.
Shirley, too, wearying of the unfamiliar, turned to the delights of the iron wastebasket into which she tried to wedge her plump self with indifferent success and a great crackling of paper.
Shirley who sat in thewastebasket and beamed upon an approving world.
Do you think that you would like me better in the greenwastebasket hat with the red roses?
I had my choice of wearing a green wastebasket bonnet trimmed with red roses for six months, or a beard for twelve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wastebasket" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
