castoff
Example Sentences
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For these castoff athletes, life is often difficult: little education, damaged bodies, few career prospects outside the sports system.
From New York Times
The Panthers will look to get the Jets castoff up to speed with coordinator Joe Brady’s offense quickly and give the fourth-year QB a boost of confidence.
From Seattle Times
Yesterday, I happened to go to her studio, which I had not seen because I hadn’t been to Philly in many months, and she’s started doing a variety of projects with castoff materials and found objects.
From New York Times
His postcards were like the art he enjoyed making: decorated with collages he’d create with colorful scraps of contact paper, magazine images and whatever pieces of castoff rope, foil or steel wool he’d find around his house.
From Los Angeles Times
Among the most striking examples is “Mount Recyclemore,” a homage to the carved granite heads of Mount Rushmore composed of discarded circuit boards, laptop covers and castoff cellphone pieces.
From New York Times
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