"discarded things" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe any items that have been thrown away, abandoned, or rejected. For example, "The trash can was filled with discarded things that had been cluttering the garage for months."
His assistants, colleagues say, routinely combed through his trash to make sure he had not inadvertently discarded things of value.
She belongs to the junk-into-art tradition conceived by Kurt Schwitters, an art scavenger who discerned a pathos in discarded things.
In the back chamber, discarded things of family jumble together, nothing thrown away since we moved here in eighteen sixty-five.
Among the discarded things lived a community of discarded people — people who had been marginalized, or who had willingly discarded themselves, people who had tired of racing all over the city to sell and buy new things that were destined to go instantly out of date, people who had decided that the things that had been thrown away were the only real riches of the world.
Club members set out to remake old and discarded things into objects of beauty.
As though she were a discarded thing, scarcely human at all.
Her right hand lay curled in her lap, palm upward, a useless and discarded thing, and she swung her legs under the piano stool as she concentrated: a sharp-faced little scrap of a girl, blotted with freckles, straight hair pushed out of the way behind sticking-out ears.
It discards things and keeps others.
I'm pretty ruthless about discarding things from a book that will not work cinematically.
Since economic growth depends on novelty, it also requires us to discard things.
But if you use it to discard things, especially plastic containers, you may accumulate the fresh water that generates favourable conditions for the mosquito," he said.
