[1575–85; waste + paper]This word is first recorded in the period 1575–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: conventional, magazine, orthodox, recall, shelter
Examples of 'wastepaper' in a sentence
wastepaper
He walked out, leaving his wedding ring in the wastepaper basket.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In the middle of the office is a wastepaper basket that, pointedly, fills up.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I have four baskets in my front room for wastepaper.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Maybe she uses them as bookends or colourful wastepaper baskets.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
However, stubbing my cigarette out in the wastepaper basket was probably a mistake.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We had to resort to a wastepaper basket.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
No kicking anything into a wastepaper basket here.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This interstellar option was dunked, mercifully, through the basketball hoop over the wastepaper bin.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He leans over to a wastepaper basket and jettisons his gum.