The phrase "a waste basket" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a container for disposing of waste or trash, typically found in offices or homes.
Example: "Please throw your used paper in the waste basket instead of leaving it on the desk."
Alternatives: "trash can" or "garbage bin".
Rock bottom is reached with an anecdote about a waste basket used as a chamber pot.
In the last minutes of the work week, on Saturday, March 25 , 1911 a match or a cigarette tossed into a waste basket ignited a fire that fed on the scraps of cloth and paper patterns hanging overhead.
She was named for the nurse, Haila Hahn, who, family lore has it, rescued her from a waste basket with the cry, "Doctor, it's alive!" Her parents, Canadian Mormons, were on their way to Salt Lake City, where the family lived until Haila was 8, when they moved to Los Angeles.
She mentions a painting she made in graduate school that "everybody hated," in which she tried to capture light on the creases of a waste basket's plastic liner* just as previous painters had done using the folds of veils and curtains.
The series includes a coffee pot, a waste basket, a pickelhaube, and two saucepans.
There may be a waste basket or small side table that you can place on top of the desk and then put your laptop on.
He wrote that in 1844, during his first visit to the Saint Catherine's Monastery, he saw some leaves of parchment in a waste-basket.
As a result, Gauthier's suggested contents for Carnosauria were determined to be paraphyletic [9], [12], [17]; recognition of this paraphyly led to the practice of abandoning the name "Carnosauria" since it had become a "waste-basket" taxon for large-bodied theropods [8].
If your pencil-case is small, or doesn't have compartments, it's fine to mix everything together, as long as you keep the lids to your pens on tight and sharpen pencils in a waste-basket and not in your pencil-case.
Selma Dabbagh wrote us an abandoned love letter, retrieved from a hotel waste basket and sent as a scrumpled ball.
They felt an enormous sense of peace and did feel that they were contributing to the healing of their children". The kids Sequeira works with at Sloan-Kettering also use what she calls a "worrywart waste basket," in which they make a practice of writing down their concerns on a piece of paper and throwing them away.
