throwaway
Example Sentences
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Much of it is the sort of thing that will work or not work depending on your mood, but generally I prefer the small throwaway jokes to the big gross ones.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 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
“Whether this is a serious policy threat or just another throwaway comment remains to be seen,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Jay Foreman, CEO of Basic Fun!, a Florida-based manufacturer known for its Care Bears and Tonka trucks, calls 2025 “a throwaway year.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
“We just run out of milk powder, and we got nothing else to give her. And we need more nappies, the throwaway ones. Anything babies need, really. And medicine.”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
