Sentence examples for disposable words from inspiring English sources

In April, on a post by Brad Leithauser about the surprising durability of certain seemingly disposable words (involuntary memory, essentially), a reader left a quotation in the comments, which he attributed to the poet Siegfried Sassoon: For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read.

We use the word "disposable income," but shouldn't we consider what's being disposed of?

That means words become disposable, an inconvenience, and that throwaway lines are not always thrown away.

Donna Keiko Ozawa, a San Francisco artist, collected over 170,000 used chopsticks for her continuing waribashi project, a reference to the Japanese word for disposable chopsticks.

In other words, cheap and disposable labour.

They then become, in the pastor's words, "America's disposable children".

They're generally seen as victims or disposable or both, and their words tend to fall on deaf ears, when they're listened to at all.

"Disposable" is not a dirty word.

Their words and worlds are disposable; it's no wonder they fade so fast.

Fresh Kills, in other words, would be a disposable commodity itself, and by the standards of 1940's land management, everyone would win.

The terms "disposable" and "single use" are swear words to a sustainability professional, but they are often critical in a healthcare setting to reduce the spread of infection.