N21694/1725

紙かみくず

nounnoun (generic)

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かみくず

Meanings

wastepaper, scrap of paper, paper scraps

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Example sentences

机つくえの上うえに紙かみくずが散ちらかっていた。

Scraps of paper were scattered on the desk.

紙かみくずをゴミ箱ばこに捨すててください。

Please throw the wastepaper into the trash can.

彼かれは手紙てがみを読よみ終おえると、それを紙かみくずのように丸まるめて捨すてた。

After finishing reading the letter, he crumpled it up like a scrap of paper and threw it away.

床ゆかに落おちている紙かみくずを拾ひろい集あつめた。

I picked up the paper scraps that had fallen on the floor.

会議室かいぎしつには議論ぎろんの痕跡こんせきとして、紙かみくずが至いたるところに散乱さんらんしていた。

Paper scraps were strewn everywhere throughout the conference room as traces of the discussion.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)