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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."
I'm pretty enthusiastic about his candidacy, and even I saw that as a throwaway gesture.
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: ").
Sometimes what seems to be central is really peripheral, and a throwaway plot point turns out to be the story's symbolic heart.
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.