waste-basket

"All right," he announced, tearing the manuscript into half a dozen pieces and throwing it into the waste-basket.

Chapter 29 2010

As such, he was the recipient of lucubrations from countless cranks; but this particular lucubration was so different from the average ruck of similar letters that, instead of putting it into the waste-basket, he had turned it over to a reporter.

Goliah 2010

Marian, starting to reach into the waste-basket, refrained.

Chapter 29 2010

M. Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket.

Les Miserables 2008

You can delete bad news instantly, which beats building a bonfire in your waste-basket.

ONLINE EVERYTHING 2008

Because Bothriospondylus was named early in the scientific discovery of sauropods (in 1875), it quickly became a sort of ‘waste-basket’ taxon to which sauropod remains from all over the world were referred.

Obscure dinosaurs of the Kimmeridge Clay Darren Naish 2006

Instead, he bought a pistol, went home (he and Daugherty were now living at the Wardman Park Hotel), thoughtfully put his head in an iron waste-basket, and blew his brains out.

Frank Dwyer: Another Historical Analogy for Desperate Republicans 2008

Because Bothriospondylus was named early in the scientific discovery of sauropods (in 1875), it quickly became a sort of ‘waste-basket’ taxon to which sauropod remains from all over the world were referred.

Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006

Any thing dealing with the average American working class or middle class or lower class this Republican government through it in the “waste-basket”.

The Tao of Kent Brockman - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2006

No out-spread newspapers on the table, no crumpled telegrams in the waste-basket, nothing but the trail of discarded possessions and garments from door to bed.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005