| 单词 | wastepaper basket |
| 例句 | I crumpled Dad’s note into a ball and practiced throwing it into the wastepaper basket from different positions in the kitchen. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She ripped it up into little pieces and dropped them into the wastepaper basket. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I might never finish it, and it’ll wind up in the wastepaper basket or the stove. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I made a note to bring in some ashtrays and then I rooted through the wastepaper basket for a few empty cans. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He tossed the paper into the nearest wastepaper basket and headed out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z But for the past week, Gogol has been in bed, just like his mother, listless, without appetite, claiming to have a stomachache, even vomiting one day into his mother’s pink wastepaper basket. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Tuffett took her note, wadded it up without reading it, and threw it at the wastepaper basket. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The man in the cowboy hat spit sunflower seed shells into a wastepaper basket. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She finds a worn-down tube of lipstick in her mother’s wastepaper basket and hides it away, and takes it to school in her pocket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I looked around for a container and found a plastic grocery-style bag lining the wastepaper basket. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A clock that didn’t work, a flowered tin wastepaper basket. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She spends her days lying down, a pink plastic wastepaper basket by her side, the shades drawn, her mouth and teeth coated with the taste of metal. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Jack was sliding the pits off the photo into his wastepaper basket. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "Just stay at your desk and use the wastepaper basket like I do." Girl Least Likely To by Liz Jones – digested read 2013-07-22T06:00:20Z We photographed the sheet of paper and I threw the original into the wastepaper basket. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z From a distance it looks a bit like an upturned wastepaper basket, soaring over the concrete skyline of southern Moscow. Lord Foster fires up campaign to save rusting Russian radio tower 2010-04-15T17:40:00Z A maid passes with a feather duster and a wastepaper basket. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z The novel takes place in deserts, wastepaper baskets, the dreams of sleeping Japanese women and the apartment of a singularly humourless, moping, heartbroken writer. What travel writers are reading right now 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “Anonymous letters I throw into the wastepaper basket without a second glance,” he wrote. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Matters were resolved when the errant bulletin was retrieved from the wastepaper basket into which it had fallen. Patricia Hughes 2013-02-24T13:50:55Z “Unfortunately, our long-standing demands for staff hirings, better training and above all use of modern safety technology always end up in the wastepaper basket,” it said in a statement. Rescuers comb wreckage of Greece’s deadliest train crash 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z A few days after the fire, Mr. Maher, a former Green Beret, admitted to setting a wastepaper basket on fire and stabbing himself. Lily Safra, Star-Crossed Socialite and Philanthropist, Dies at 87 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Tossing a bottle of Vichy water into a wastepaper basket, he walks off into the night with Rick to join the anti-Vichy French forces of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Review | The chaos of France’s defeat, and the thrill of its liberation 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z To the unmoved, the pins are the kind of $7 memento you toss in a drawer, or a wastepaper basket, as soon as you return from the Games. Their Olympics Are Already Canceled 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Not to mention the widespread habit of tossing used toilet paper into wastepaper baskets to spare the strain on many homes’ aged and insufficient plumbing. Mexico City plastic bag ban to take residents back in time 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel has been compared to many things, from a wastepaper basket to the expandable foam mesh for packaging fruit, but the designer prefers to cite the form of India’s ancient step wells. Horror on the Hudson: New York's $25bn architectural fiasco 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Yet 15,000 words of her new book were torn up in the wastepaper basket, a “literary miscarriage”. Sex, jealousy and gender: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca 80 years on 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, it is by another prince - he needs to be thrown in the wastepaper basket of history like we threw the communists. Saudi Crown Prince’s Mass Purge Upends a Longstanding System 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z A recent auction for six vintage wastepaper baskets by Mr. Risom netted $10,625 with Wright, the country’s leading modern design house. Jens Risom, Modernist Designer Whose Furniture Still Has Legs, Dies at 100 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z With another marquee name to market, the Madison Square Garden strongman James L. Dolan is less likely to kick over office wastepaper baskets. Knicks Trade for Bulls’ Derrick Rose but Have More Work to Do 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “I crumpled it up real nice and tight and skyhooked it into my wastepaper basket,” he recalled, invoking his trademark shot. Donald Trump’s Secret Weapon: Letters of Love, Flattery and Revenge 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z When police had taken her to the country house hours after the body was found, she had rushed towards a room that contained a wastepaper basket with snippets of orange baler twine inside. Why did two parents murder their adopted child? | Giles Tremlett 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z When I started off in journalism, I confess, I occasionally tossed letters from readers in the wastepaper basket. A Message to Readers 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z “One result of the wastepaper basket incident was I was able to convince my uncles to name me as the successor trustee,” Douglas said. Series on Troubled Scion of Durst Real Estate Family Has Critic: His Brother 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z In one situation, even the wastepaper baskets in the offices were removed and replaced with categorized boxes for every conceivable scrap of paper. In Yates v. United States, a Lot More Than Fish Is on the Line 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z He said, “Our G-13 proposal now is in the wastepaper basket, we have a new law and we have to respect it.” Hong Kong And Beijing: The Future Of Economic Freedom 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z File them in the round wastepaper basket if you desire. 10 Suggestions To Rob Manfred On How To Make Major League Baseball Better 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z One came from piles of faeces on his tiled floors and in wastepaper baskets, and a plastic water bottle filled with urine. Palestinians returning home find Israeli troops left faeces and venomous graffiti 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z “I started a little factory in the back garden and made things like table mats or coverings for wastepaper baskets,” she says. Eve Branson: ‘I was not saved by Kate Winslet!’ 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Why not believe her when she said she did not throw the burning punk into the wastepaper basket? The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z We all know how impossible sleep becomes with a rustle of a mouse in the wastepaper basket, or the scratching of one on the wainscoting. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It says the beacon was unveiled to a predictable chorus of unfavourable comparisons to "a golden cheese-grater" and a "bling wastepaper basket". Newspaper review 2011-06-09T04:57:34Z Harold, his face dark and lowering, obeyed, and the "rubbish," tenderly placed in a wastepaper basket, was handed to his mother. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z Brabazon was a former Tory MP and aviation pioneer who, in 1909, strapped a wastepaper basket containing a piglet to the wing of a plane to prove that pigs could fly. The Knowledge cold weather special 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z The priceless manuscript was discarded in 1911 by the Brünn Natural History Society and, luckily, rescued by a local high school teacher who retrieved it from a wastepaper basket in the society’s library. A Family Feud Over Mendel?s Manuscript on Laws of Heredity 2010-05-31T21:20:00Z In a last hope, she went through the wastepaper basket, but she was doomed to disappointment and turned to Helen, her voice shaking with emotion. Janet Hardy in Radio City "Yeah," agreed the other, picking it up and throwing it into a wastepaper basket. All In The Mind I have been very cynical over myself to-day, 129 partly, perhaps, because I have just finished some of the deedest rubbish about Lord Lytton’s Fables that an intelligent editor ever shot into his wastepaper basket. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) And he pitched the papers at the wastepaper basket under the sideboard. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman He spent the time writing letters and tearing them up again till the wastepaper basket was full; then he carried it over to the fireplace and burnt every scrap of paper it contained. The Phantom Lover He wrote pages and pages, and in the evening threw them into the wastepaper basket. Changing Winds A Novel The sonnets of Shakespeare are picked up afterwards as if out of a wastepaper basket. What I Saw in America He was conveying the sheet to the wastepaper basket as one who piously removes some unsavoury litter out of the way of those who walk delicately. The Convert She groped about beneath his knees for the wastepaper basket that would be needed as vehicle. In the Mist of the Mountains “Don’t let the burnt end drop into the wastepaper basket!” exclaimed Mrs Rose, in an unfortunate moment. Fighting the Flames I do not for one moment believe Mr. Asquith would employ such agencies and for sure he will turn Murdoch and his wares into the wastepaper basket. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 You might have picked that envelope up in the street, or taken it from a wastepaper basket. The Blue Envelope The delegato, who was not apparently a man who quickly seized the humorous side of a remark, at once stepped back from the window, and glanced at the wastepaper basket. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron In getting up from the table he gave the note a push, which sent it down into a wastepaper basket. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel He was hardly aware of the wastepaper basket thrust over his head. More William Putting his hand up, he pulled out his wife's letter, and read it again cursorily before casting it into the wastepaper basket. Married Life The True Romance Standing tore the message into small fragments and dropped them into the wastepaper basket beside him. The Man in the Twilight "It is about the only place in the room he could hide in, except of course the wastepaper basket." Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron When they approached Genoa, the floor of the railway carriage resembled a gigantic wastepaper basket. The Liberation of Italy He stepped out boldly into the dusk with his pop-gun, followed by the blindly obedient Peggy carrying the wastepaper basket in one hand and the skin in the other. More William Discovering a wastepaper basket full of envelopes with brightly coloured marks on them, he regained his interest a little. The Soul of a Child "Wastepaper basket, wastepaper basket," we shouted when Mr. B. handed us the roll of paper. Confessions of a Young Man Sir Thomas appeared to breathe easier; he deliberately tore the cablegram into small bits, then tossed the fragments into a wastepaper basket before waving his caller to a chair. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Ah, at last and for the first time there was a flaw in the appointment of the house, for there was no wastepaper basket by the table. The Blotting Book He flung off his wastepaper basket and turned upon the proprietress of the establishment who stood by the door. More William I have been very cynical over myself to-day, partly, perhaps, because I have just finished some of the deedest rubbish about Lord Lytton's fables that an intelligent editor ever shot into his wastepaper basket. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 It was possible, of course, that he would not answer the letter and would throw it into the wastepaper basket—but nothing worse than that…. Bertha Garlan He searched the wastepaper basket, and, picking an envelope therefrom, said “Ha!” If I May Just go and get the wastepaper basket in the library, Judy. In the Closed Room So while Magsie was getting her marriage license, Billy was in Magsie's apartment turning over the contents of her wastepaper basket in feverish haste. The Heart of Rachael The flush remained on his face, his cigarette had gone out, and he threw the stump savagely into the wastepaper basket. Cap'n Warren's Wards It so happened, however, that the day after she threw Lady Maresfield's invitation into the wastepaper basket she received a visit from a certain Mrs. Donovan, whom she had occasionally seen in Hill Street. The Chaperon He would forget her postscript; in future throw her envelopes unglanced at into the wastepaper basket. The Fawn Gloves Wait a little before you throw my letter into the wastepaper basket. Little Novels 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. Anna Karenina Telegrams followed, which he threw into the wastepaper basket. The Malefactor The mind of Wang-san is only comparable with a wastepaper basket," exclaimed the visitor harshly; "and Yin Ho is in reality as dull as split ebony. Kai Lung's Golden Hours |
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