Sentence examples for discarded like from inspiring English sources
Today, it is an anachronism to be discarded like traditional theories of security.
He found a well-traveled man who had earlier been discarded like last night's frozen dinner.
On being abused by his babysitter when he was 8: "I feel discarded, like a piece of trash.
Williams wrote to Laughlin, implicitly suggesting that he settle money on Maria for "disappointment as a result of being discarded like this, in such a public fashion".
The Germans discovered it in the ruins of a sculptor's studio, along with other unfinished busts of the Queen, all of them discarded like yesterday's propaganda.
One reason that most ads from a concluded campaign disappear is that when advertisers change agencies, the previous work is usually discarded like yesterday's mashed potatoes.
A chasm divided Wilhelm's understanding of national identity - as something one could choose, embrace, perhaps even discard, like a lover - from the Nazis' belief that nationality was fixed by the immutable laws of racial science.
Prying a spouse loose can be arduous, as she discovered via her first husband: discarded wives stick like burrs.
In their eyes, psychoanalysis belongs with discarded practices like leeching.
Paul Elliman fashioned a collection of mineral specimens from discarded materials like plastic pen pieces ("quartz") and metallic plastic bags ("pyrite").
Amid clumps of dust and sprocket-hole chads are twisted bits of discarded film, like so many mangled corpses.
