Example sentences for: throwaway

How can you use “throwaway” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • is being hyped as a throwaway feel-good movie, but it has moments of genuine depth.

  • In a world of throwaway publications, AUDUBON magazine is truly worth reading and worth keeping.

  • As for George Bush coming to shake hands at Unity in Seattle, perhaps it was "a throwaway" as you say-but no more so (and quite probably less so) than shaking hands with farmers in Iowa.

  • Look at Boxcar Bertha , a throwaway piece of apprentice-work he made for schlock impresario Roger Corman in the early '70s (if you've never seen it, imagine Bonnie and Clyde remade as an episode of Kung Fu ), and then look at The Last Temptation of Christ , the controversial, deeply personal rendering of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel which infuriated some Christians a decade and a half later.

  • I'm pretty enthusiastic about his candidacy, and even I saw that as a throwaway gesture.


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