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Example sentences for "throw away"

  • Another privilege of celebrity is to throw away one's cigar, and walk out of the smoking room if one is bored.

  • He'd show him he couldn't throw away a man as useful and efficient as he'd been, like a sucked orange.

  • While Tom was savagely jamming in powder and ball, the wicket gate of the fort opened, a man came out and ran to a house a biscuit's throw away, and ran back again before he was shot at, slamming the gate after him.

  • It cannot be any one's destiny to throw away a life while still something may be made of it.

  • To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

  • Seever was the first man, and I did not want him to throw away a single chance.

  • I was probably wrong, but my money was in danger, and no chance would I throw away to save it.

  • This is better," he said, fingering it, unhurried as a man with hours to throw away.

  • He purposed to throw away no card that might later take a trick.

  • The nymphs of the theatres are laides `a faire peur which at my age is a piece of luck, like going into a shop of curiosities, and finding nothing to tempt one to throw away one's money.

  • We throw away a whole summer in writing Britons and North Britons; the Russians change sovereigns faster than Mr. Wilkes can choose a motto for a paper.

  • Oysters cooked with this vinegar go immediately into rags, and are soon entirely eaten up, or dissolved into a thin whitish liquid, fit for nothing but to throw away.

  • When the shells of raw oysters are found gaping open they are fit for nothing but to throw away, and should not have been seen in the market, as they are quite dead and decomposition has commenced.

  • Every sort of food, the least verging on decomposition, is unfit for any thing but to throw away or bury.

  • The name originated from the circumstance of a hunting party having been compelled to throw away there a quantity of flyblown meat.

  • Why, I'll warrant this ring cost fifty pounds: what a prodigal fellow are you to throw away so much money!

  • On him to throw away my youth and bloom, As jewels that are lost to enrich a tomb?

  • I throw away a title that's so good, On one a stranger to whate'er was so?

  • I'm not one to be afraid, but I won't throw away my life.

  • That ought to be forbidden by law," said Master Andres; "any one with little children hasn't the right to throw away money on the dead.

  • Throw away a large capital upon an old, worn-out thing like me, that has one foot in the grave!

  • You have your life before you, to throw away or to use.

  • That's the crime--to throw away such an instrument of power, such a blessed instrument of good.

  • And I don't throw away a devotion," Mrs. Dallow continued.

  • You're very fortunate--to be able to throw away a real devotion," Nick returned.

  • Think it all over again; don't throw away a splendid future!

  • Nothing could be more absurd than to throw away an income of ten thousand dollars a year in order to marry a poor man.

  • It would be simple madness to throw away such a chance.

  • Now, get ready, gentlemen, and don't throw away a shot, if they are still working there.

  • Don't throw away a shot if you can help it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "throw away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    artesian wells; draw together; false analogy; hackney coaches; maritime warfare; more particularly; placed under; reasoning from; seven cases; small garrison; the ground; throw away; throw down; throw herself; throw himself; throw light; throw myself; throw stones; throw them; throwing herself; throwing light; thrown down; thrown open; thrown overboard; thrown upon; uniform size