discard
Example Sentences
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Crouched between mountains of discarded plastic, Lanh strips the labels off bottles of Coke, Evian and local Vietnamese tea drinks so they can be melted into tiny pellets for reuse.
From Barron's
The word mottainai, for instance, roughly translates to “profound regret over discarding or wasting something that could still serve a purpose.”
While the players who performed admirably for O'Neill look at themselves in a mirror, Nancy might need to retrieve his discarded tactics board.
From BBC
E-scooters are quick, lightweight and extremely mobile, easy to obtain and easy to discard.
“If you’re going to be spending money, you want to do that in a way that is not discarding what we already know.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
