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Example sentences for: throwaway

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Sometimes what seems to be central is really peripheral, and a throwaway plot point turns out to be the story's symbolic heart.
The former are useful for your extra T-shirts or throwaway beach sandals, the latter for nice quality private-label fashion and accessories for men, women, children, and the home.
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."
I have great respect and admiration for Marshall Loeb (that's not a throwaway line; I really do), but his explanation that he was getting paid by Time , not the advertisers, is kind of funny (see "Culturebox: ").
I'm pretty enthusiastic about his candidacy, and even I saw that as a throwaway gesture.