wastebaskets
- plural of wastebasket.
Example Sentences
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As a housemate, he was catastrophic—overturning wastebaskets, ransacking drawers and drenching manuscripts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
When that happens, residents are forced to defecate in wastebaskets in their rooms and then, he said, take “the walk of shame” to deposit their feces in hallway trash rooms.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023
She herself had emptied the wastebaskets as a little girl.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2022
He was socially awkward, muttered to himself, belched noisily in public and urinated in office wastebaskets.
From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2022
This thirst for worn things led to casual but habitual examinations of trash barrels in alleys and wastebaskets in public places.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
