How to Use throwaway in a Sentence

throwaway

1 of 2 adjective
  • That’s not a throwaway idea for this Knicks team.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026
  • The idea might seem like a throwaway line in a wish list of policies.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • At first, this might sound like a sweet, throwaway detail.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Instead, it is skirted around, with a throwaway line on race.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a deeper meaning to the song, but also, a lot of it feels throwaway.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • An alias is a throwaway address that forwards mail to your real inbox.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Candiace votes for Rob — a throwaway vote to the rest of the table, but one that sends a message to him.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Slim and old, throwaway pamphlet style with cheesy illustrations.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In one country, the comment was a throwaway line amid an instant reaction to the World Cup draw.
    — Tom Bogert, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • For many, the time between Christmas and New Year’s is too often seen as a period of throwaway days.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Barack Obama is clearing the air after causing an internet frenzy with some throwaway comments about the existence of aliens.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This is an utterly throwaway slice of college comedy, rather more concerned with sports, pranks, and teen/20-something romance than getting lost on the final frontier.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The fire comes with a backstory fed into the picture in small doses, through blink-and-you’ll-miss moments and throwaway exchanges between characters that come to define the film in its later moments, too.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • Environmentalists worry that the resurgence of throwaway culture could undo green habits that consumers have adopted and lead to more plastic pollution in wildlife habitats.
    — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 2020
  • The liners, which can also be used as muffin tins, are a sustainable, plastic-free, and reusable alternative to single-use, throwaway aluminum or paper liners, and can be reused for years to come.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Screenwriter Jeremy Slater takes pains to pay homage to the games as much as possible, featuring so many throwaway references that the aficionados at the press screening were screaming with delight.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
  • Aphex Twin’s 2003 26 Mixes for Cash compilation nodded wryly in its title to the throwaway nature of the worst of the form.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 May 2026
  • The seemingly throwaway reference is actually the result of years spent dissecting Dion's every move with the dedication of a method actor preparing to portray a historical figure.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • These irregular, geometric objects transform throwaway plastics into collectible design, sparking reflection on consumption and permanence in the digital age.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The early episodes of FX’s Love Story cover his relationship with actress Daryl Hannah, but the rest of the attorney’s dating history gets, at most, a throwaway line.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Earlier this month, Pasquantino wrote about the Royals moving in the fences at Kauffman Stadium in an X post and included a seemingly throwaway line about salary arbitration hearings.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But for all its stylistic brio and an overall mesmerizing look, in which even throwaway visuals (like the icy corpse of a solider frozen to his battlefield steed) sear themselves into your memory, Frankenstein remains the simple, direct story of a man and his nonbiological offspring.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • These are not throwaway virtues in 2026, when the world is increasingly colonized by soulless vertical drama templates and is emptied of literacies, as seen when college students struggle to make any sense of the first seven paragraphs of a Dickens novel.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 May 2026
  • For that reason, many ORM companies focus on suppression that survives Google updates rather than on throwaway PBNs and grey-hat takedown promises that defined the industry a decade ago.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • After seeing the blight of throwaway fashion on both Ghana’s environment and the worsening hardships of Kantamanto traders, Agbofah founded The Revival in 2018 to upcycle unsellable textiles.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The script, credited to new collaborator Simon Lyashenko and Zvyagintsev and adapted freely from Chabrol’s 1969 thriller, wastes nothing, not even a throwaway comment at a restaurant dinner that Gleb and Galina attend about the last time Gleb cleaned his own house.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026

throw away

2 of 2 verb
  • I should throw away that torn shirt.
  • It'll just get thrown away again.
    — Angela Hart, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Most are used once and thrown away.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Don't throw away your shot, folks.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Lock him up and throw away the key.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Why throw away one of his last prime years?
    — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The piece is just too good to throw away.
    — Russell Platt, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
  • Those things are being thrown away.
    — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Nothing that can be saved gets thrown away.
    — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Gently knock off soil and throw away any moldy bulbs.
    — Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 24 Mar. 2026
  • If prices cannot adjust, those goods are thrown away.
    — Hemant K. Bhargava, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026
  • But when the lessons were over, the radios were thrown away.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Just because this game went bad doesn’t throw away the first five games.
    — Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Cops can show up any time to throw away your belongings.
    — Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • Employees threw away the foods in garbage bags.
    — Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Or the government will come by and take it all to be thrown away.
    — Carole Hinojosa august 15, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Too many people throw away stuff and have no thought for landfill.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Home is where your family and friends are a stone’s throw away.
    — Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2024
  • My outside is good enough to eat, but my inside gets thrown away.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 4 Sep. 2023
  • They should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.
    — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2026
  • When the blooms finally wilt, don’t throw away the bulbs.
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Collect eggs often and throw away cracked eggs.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Unopened cans should be returned or thrown away.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
  • How long can they be left out safely before they should be thrown away?
    — Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The bag should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Each day, throw away anything that wasn’t eaten.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • And not use plastic for things that are single-use and then just throw away.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Let the tea steep for a few minutes and remove and throw away the tea bags.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
  • Most are thrown away within minutes.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Tired of throwing away a $3 sponge every week.
    — Jamie Thilman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026

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