discard

Example Sentences

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She testified that she dropped him off near the Spohr’s home and later saw him discard items from his backpack after they crossed the Nevada state line.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

In Longyearbyen, owners of the Kroa seafood restaurant decided to discard a marble bust of communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that had been given to them as a gift from Barentsburg.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

The circular economy seeks to move away from the traditional "extract, produce, discard" approach.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

Not wishing to discard its "magnificent tubers" back into the fields, Osterland Agrar says it's set to have bussed around 500,000kg to Berlin, and other parts of Germany and Ukraine.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson