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How to use ashtray in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb

Ashtray means a receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes and cigars. Example: “This ashtray is very midcentury, but that lamp is the most midcentury thing I've seen all year.”

Examples of ashtray by meaning

verbTo use an ashtray.

  • to ashtray a cigarette

More sentences with ashtray

  • This ashtray is very midcentury, but that lamp is the most midcentury thing I've seen all year.From the entry midcentury
  • He stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and went back inside.From the entry stub out
  • In reaching for a glass he knocked over the ashtray.From the entry reach for
  • The ashtray was full of cigarette ends.From the entry cigarette end
  • I don't want my runner stopping off to decrumb a table or empty an ashtray.2001, Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential, page 230. From the entry decrumb
  • Hotels expect to lose ashtrays, coat hangers and towels, for me it was Stanley knives.1988, Dennis Sloan, The Twenty-Third Little Varmint, published 2005, page 126. From the entry Stanley knife
  • She unnested the coffee cans and used the top one as an ashtray.1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994. From the entry unnest
  • Particularly attractive, as well as being easy to pack, are the ashtrays, eggcups and jampots.1963 June 16, Margaret Berkvist, “Fond Recollections of British Mementos; Taste of Yorkshire Pebble Treasures”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry jampot
  • The heat they produced cracked the ashtray one day where he set ablast his mother’s pyre symbolically.1962, Hertha Riese, chapter 8, in Heal the Hurt Child, University of Chicago Press, page 306. From the entry ablast
  • John butted a cigarette in the ashtray, got out of the car with his twenty-four-ounce coffee and sausage eggwich.2018, Liam Sweeny, Street Whispers, unnumbered page. From the entry eggwich
  • She took a long drag and put the cigarette out in the blue ashtray on the living room table.2015, Lucia Moroşanu, When Impossible Events Occur, →ISBN. From the entry TARDIS blue
  • They had all the accoutrements of the China sojourner—the carved mahogany ashtrays, the Ning-po lacquerware, the Qing-style blackwood furniture.2012, Paul French, Midnight in Peking, Viking, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 157. From the entry Ning-Po
  • And what a nastyass stale butt it was too, already smoked once and picked out of the ashtray, tasting burnt smoke.1991, J. R. Creech, Music and Crime, Random House, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry nastyass
  • On the centre table, in front of him, there was a half-empty bottle of ogogoro, an ashtray, and a packet of cigarettes.1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, Section 1, Book 1, Chapter 8. From the entry ogogoro

Meaning of ashtray

  1. noun A receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes and cigars.
  2. verb To use an ashtray.

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Questions about ashtray in a sentence

How do you use ashtray in a sentence?
Ashtray is used as a noun and verb. For example: “This ashtray is very midcentury, but that lamp is the most midcentury thing I've seen all year.”
What is a short sentence with ashtray?
“to ashtray a cigarette”
What does ashtray mean?
Ashtray means a receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes and cigars.

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