Sentence examples for round file from inspiring English sources

Before you throw this letter into the proverbial round file, let's be clear: this is the first time I have ever asked for a bailout from the Federal Reserve.

It was a lackluster nonendorsement that guaranteed an application would end up in the "round file".

His obsession with instruments kicked in at age 13 in his parents' Philadelphia garage, where he used a Swiss army knife and a round file to turn a discarded reed into a flute.

The 'maybes' get a brief second look because there was something that caught my eye--some of them falling into the round file and a few getting some further interest for an open position or for scanning into our applicant data file.

I can't see this suit going any further than a court's polite round file.

J&L Illustrated #3 is not like those sad magazines that end up in the round file.

Then an extra chain, a splitting maul and two new round files.

He added that he suspected many police departments simply deposited the federal guidelines, which he helped develop, "into their round files".

And this year Aravane Rezaï, the Frenchwoman who took a set off Serena Williams in the first round, filed a complaint against her father for "harassment, intentional violence and death threats".

When I worked on the Sunday Telegraph a decade ago, the fax machine was strategically placed above the waste paper basket so that press releases went straight into what we called the round filing cabinet.

Some round files are long and pointy; don't forget and poke yourself in the eye.