Sentence examples for throwaway item from inspiring English sources

AGES 12 AND UP -- Another throwaway item in the young-man-as-moron genre will lure a few teenagers.

This time around it will be the designer's job to discourage consumers from regarding that $30 Ikea side table as a throwaway item.

This was something of a whole new order: a new kind of fame created by new forms of communication, a throwaway item made for TV that travelled as far and wide as the web would take it, and Susan Boyle, a 47-year-old, unmarried woman from a former mining town in rural Scotland, was its first test case.

Plants - living things - often become throwaway items used purely for decoration, with little acknowledgment given to their much deeper importance to the human state.

The Power Paper batteries are "a good technology for throwaway items, for instance, smart cards or labels," said Sol Jacobs, vice president and general manager of Tadiran Electronic Industries of Port Washington, N.Y.

Last year the center published the first "Encyclopedia of Ephemera" (Routledge), which contains more than 400 thumbnail histories of throwaway items, including air-sickness bags, lavatory paper and garment labels.

I don't like the idea of throwaway things.' And with that, he's off to have a look at some of the throwaway items at 100% Design, and then back up north, where his sketchbooks and his Plasticine are waiting.

But that's better than consigning them to a landfill, where toxic chemicals used in their manufacture can leach into the water table.Before computers became throwaway items, machines that were no longer powerful enough to do the job or broken beyond repair were kept as backups or cannibalised for spares.

More than twice as many reusable "bags for life" have been purchased from supermarkets in Wales since the introduction of a 5p minimum charge for single-use plastic bags, prompting fears that the heavier duty bags are now being used as "throwaway" items.

Thankfully most are priced as throwaway items.

Replaced with each new film release, they were seen as throwaway items.