throwaway
Example Sentences
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Originally pitched as a movie, the comeback is subdivided instead into 30-minute-long quarters, giving them a certain heft, whereas a “TV movie” might have felt like a throwaway, an afterthought.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
“For so long, people thought it was just the most effortless throwaway career,” Berman says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
What might at first seem a bit of preciousness, and which even Gyllenhaal initially makes seem a bit of a throwaway, reveals itself to have a much deeper meaning.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
A bit of tinkering – stripping the original’s heavy bassline, tossing in his lithe falsetto and a playful guitar to hold everything aloft – made the one-time throwaway into something immortal.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
While she was turned away, examining an old peach basket I’d put in the throwaway pile, I sucked in my breath.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
