Wastepaper

Word WASTEPAPER
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Wastepaper"

What do we mean by wastepaper?

Discarded paper. noun

Unwanted paper that has been discarded rather than recycled noun

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The word "wastepaper" in example sentences

The data, assembled under the direction of Dr. Michael Andrews, chief economist for PIERS, suggest that while U.S. imports are mostly consumer goods, U.S. exports are mostly of low-value commodities such as wastepaper, chemicals, forest products wood pulp for instance, cotton and other basics. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There, one thousand miles from Moscow, in a Russia still cut off from the West, he had invented the elements of the electoral campaign from scratch, long before the ballot box became anything more than a wastepaper receptacle. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

He would rip the piece of paper off the easel, crunch it up angrily, and toss it into the wastepaper basket. ❋ Susan Engel (2011)

My shouting at the computer and occasionally sending letters that probably disappeared into a virtual wastepaper basket did not get the manufacturers of these fraudulent pills to admit that serotonin cannot -- and will never -- get into the brain from the blood, so taking it by mouth is totally useless. ❋ PhD Judith J. Wurtman (2011)

Apparently working with sewage is a lot better than working with wastepaper. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Tire" is a large, cylindrical vessel or vase of blown glass, about the size and shape of a bathroom wastepaper basket. ❋ Blake Gopnik (2010)

By the time I reached the hall, I had already tossed my dreams in the wastepaper basket along with the pad that I had brought to record the good news for my mother. ❋ Joseph Pierce Farrell (2011)

The result is that media releases from small and medium non-profits go mostly in the wastepaper basket. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Holtby had used council minutes taken from her mother's wastepaper basket to help plot her story. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sometimes he beat out a rhythm on the bottom of an upturned wastepaper bin and chanted snatches of rap, which seemed to be a new interest, but mostly, he was listless and apathetic. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

Round the corner, an artist is putting the finishing touches to a 10-year project to depict biblical scenes out of matches and wastepaper. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I found a metal wastepaper basket in the corner of my room and used it as a drum. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

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