Sentence examples for circular files from inspiring English sources

Most of these landed in "circular files" (wastebaskets), although Planned Parenthood did give them out.

And the stack of carefully written policy statements and surveys will end up in the circular file.

Besides, my guess is that the configuration sheet will end up being regularly shot off the backboard of the circular file without a glance at its contents.

When you tell people you're recovering from a hit-and-run, people who say they receive 1,000 résumés a day might use that as one reason to put your résumé into the circular file".

For an entire month recently, I saved all the mail and trinkets I received at my office, rather than route them to the circular file or give the contents to colleagues.

Strategic word selection can catapult an announcement about a study, a product or a "breakthrough" onto the evening news instead of to its usual destination — the spam folder or circular file.

With each additional million in sales, "Nevermind" convinced another record executive to sign that flannel-wearing, distortion-pedal-stomping band whose demo tape would otherwise have gone to the circular file.

When you get that survey in the mail with a crisp dollar bill attached, do you fill the survey out or pocket the money and relegate the envelope's contents to the circular file?

My list made the circular file.

If no, then file them in the circular file.

I took one look and threw it in the circular file.