Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for discard. Search instead for discan.
Definitions

discard

[dih-skahrd, dis-kahrd] / dɪˈskɑrd, ˈdɪs kɑrd /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Health officials said consumers who have any recalled product should discard it immediately.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

That’s fine if the move is methodical, not fine if a health crisis turns it into a fire drill, forcing quick and painful decisions on what treasures to discard without a proper farewell.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

Nationally, the survey found that 43% of respondents always or usually discard food near or past the date on the label, up from 37% in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Researchers estimate that more than a trillion microplastic fibers may be released worldwide every month as people use and discard these everyday cleaning tools.

From Science Daily Apr. 18, 2026

If someone calls Sasha by the wrong name, the card instructed, the offender must discard a card from his/her hand.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

They agree to meet again, but Kip completely discards his Western life.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

This measurement, which has critics and fans, discards the categories with the most extreme inflation readings on both the high and low ends.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

Most of these businesses offer pickup at the end of the season and have partnerships with farms, where they drop off discards that become food for animals.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 26, 2025

The array of fossils were found about 25 years ago by palaeontologist Elizabeth Smith and her daughter Clytie while they were going through the discards of an opal mine.

From BBC May 27, 2024

The helm came off, and went to join the rest of the discards.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Lally said the weekend's fly-tipping was "one of the worst examples that we have come across", but it was not unusual to find discarded BBQs, beer cans and rotting food.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

A source told The Times that they were looking at the possibility that discarded ashes from the vineyard sparked the major fire.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

Decades after Einstein had discarded the idea, his supposed mistake returned as the leading explanation for the new data.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

John Harper, a farmer in Worcestershire, grows pak choi for Sainsbury's, Aldi and Co-op, and has discarded more produce than usual this year because of tiny holes made by pests.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

In a treatise published that year, he discarded the idea of a balance of forces, some pushing inwards and some pushing outwards, to hold an object like the Moon in its orbit.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

I generally prefer, as a strategic matter, an elevation of shared values—inclusive, connective, moral language such as reclaiming, rather than reinventing or discarding.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

AFP reporters saw hundreds of people -- men, women and children -- entering Ceuta, discarding flotation rings and clothes used in their crossing.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

For salad lovers, experts recommend buying whole heads of lettuce and removing and discarding the outer couple of layers of leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Schrader said it typically takes him four to six months to fully develop a screenplay idea, a process of testing, discarding and gradually refining concepts until they either strengthen or collapse under scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Having mounded them up, I shuffled through them, discarding some upon the floor.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




Vocabulary lists containing discard


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training