Example sentences for: throwaway

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

  • Sometimes what seems to be central is really peripheral, and a throwaway plot point turns out to be the story's symbolic heart.

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

  • The throwaway aspect of popular inexpensive fashion, now normal since nobody learns to sew, has lent its look to the costly couture, which more and more seems incompletely imagined and only half realized.

  • 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."

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


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