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Example sentences for: throwaway

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Nobody--not William Safire, not the Oxford English Dictionary --has concretely pinned down the origin of the word nerd . One theory traces it to a throwaway passage in Dr. Seuss' lesser-known 1950 children's book If I Ran the Zoo . Another considers it a variation of the 1940s put-down nerts to you , as in "nuts to you."
Sometimes what seems to be central is really peripheral, and a throwaway plot point turns out to be the story's symbolic heart.
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.
I'm pretty enthusiastic about his candidacy, and even I saw that as a throwaway gesture.
is being hyped as a throwaway feel-good movie, but it has moments of genuine depth.