Sentence examples for throwaway from inspiring English sources

You wouldn't catch a senior Scotland Yard leaker making that mistake with a throwaway mobile.

A few throwaway names would do for his undemanding audience but, even putting politics aside, he seems genuinely stumped.

They are about as popular as one of those throwaway weekly columns, written by an ornithologist or a potter, about how they like to spend their Sundays.

Even when it misfires – when the dialogue becomes a little too smug, when its attitude to violence gets a little too throwaway – it's still undeniably the product of a very singular mind.

However, as a resident in the Gulf, I felt the throwaway line presenting the Gulf as a front line in Christian persecution was misleading.

The crucial thing is whether we get beyond saying that as a throwaway line to actually dealing with those implications.

Modern baklava is always made with paper-thin filo – except when it's made by me, influenced by a throwaway comment made by Der Haroutunian: "If you wish to be more authentic, use homemade baklava filo," which I take as a direct challenge.

At any given time our selfhood is the sum of our memories and Knausgaard understands that this means the throwaway ore as well as the precious metal.

Mostly, it has been used to convey astronauts to a space station that has produced little worthwhile research and to launch satellites that might have been put into orbit more cheaply by old-fashioned, throwaway rockets.

This was not a one-off throwaway line.

'Liking' is ephemeral.In our own comment thread, steven314 writesMost of the 'likes' of facebook at the moment are instantaneous and throwaway: at that second, something is slightly better than anything else around and so someone "like"s it..