Etymology
Origin of ashcan
Example Sentences
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The 1940s sundered the 20th century, dispatching an entire global framework and any number of abiding social orders to the ashcan of history.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2018
Even the ashcan colors and chiaroscuro lighting brighten.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2011
In Endgame, the lid is lifted on a character who is dying in an ashcan, and it is disclosed that "he's crying."
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of his esoteric sensibility, Beckett has fashioned the snob symbol of the ashcan lids under which two of his characters live in his play Endgame.
From Time Magazine Archive
I even picked some out of the ashcan.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hapgood, Hutchins
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