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Example sentences for "thrown away"

  • Nor will a passing word concerning this excellent and faithful domestic be thrown away, in the brief preliminary explanations we are making.

  • Comfort is too precious to be thrown away in matrimony.

  • Logic is thrown away on all 'skeary animals,' said old Joe Bunk.

  • The lentils should be placed in soak overnight, and those that float should be thrown away.

  • These should be thrown away, or, at any rate, not used in making the roux.

  • The beans should be soaked in cold water overnight, and in the morning any that may be found floating on the top of the water should be thrown away.

  • Of course the bath cannot be kept for ever, sooner or later it will get dirty, and then it must be thrown away and a new bath be made up.

  • Of course the continuous working of dye-baths cannot go on for ever; sooner or later the baths become thick and dirty, and then they must be thrown away and a new bath started.

  • Of course sooner or later the baths become unusable from various causes, and then they may be thrown away; but old tannin baths often work better than the new ones.

  • Remonstrance, as I knew by experience, would be thrown away.

  • The result on my own mind is this: If you are still at Aldborough when that letter from Zurich reaches Mrs. Lecount, all the pains we have taken will have been pains thrown away.

  • The woman is simply "thrown away" by her husband, although in theory her life is forfeited.

  • Of course all flesh is to be removed from the animal, precisely as with a mammal, and unless the skeleton is to be preserved, the shoulder girdles and pelvis may be cut out with the flesh and thrown away.

  • You will observe that as fresh skins are put into a bath it gradually loses its strength, and it is also liable to become, in time, so dirty with blood and grease that it must be thrown away.

  • The black mercury, taken out of the tub and dried, is distilled anew with excess of lime; after which the residuum in the retorts is thrown away, as useless.

  • This fatal defect in his character kept him balancing between conflicting motives; and his whole life was almost thrown away.

  • Everything that I've been striving at is to be thrown away.

  • Of course it was at this time known to the lady that her husband had thrown away Goarly's business and that it had been transferred to Bearside.

  • There was a good deal of sherry drank before the party got away and hunting men such as Major Caneback began to think that the day was to be thrown away.

  • The anonymous testimony has to be thrown away, so nothing is left except the remarks claimed to have been made when the Bible was presented by the colored people, and these remarks destroy themselves.

  • The time has come for the old ideas and superstitions in politics to be thrown away--not in phrase, not in pretence, but in fact; and the time has come when a man can safely rely on the intelligence and courage of the American people.

  • These pretended remarks must be thrown away; they could have been uttered only by an ignorant and thoughtless zealot, not by a sensible, thoughtful man.

  • Parents grow apart, and unconsciously the pearl of greatest price is thrown away.

  • It will be whiter if boiled in a large clean cloth, or in a coarse paste, (the paste to be thrown away afterwards,) and take care that it is thoroughly done.

  • But if they have an unpleasant smell, and you see insects about them, of course they must be thrown away.

  • All sorts of food, if kept too long, should be thrown away at once.

  • On tasting this carrot before it is thrown away, it will be found to have imbibed strongly that disagreeable flavor.

  • Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

  • All the wit in the world is thrown away upon= 50 =the man who has none.

  • They should be hemmed or whipped over the edges, that servants may have no pretext for regarding them as mere rags, to be thrown away or torn up when dirty.

  • On tasting this carrot before it is thrown away, it will be found to have imbibed strongly that disagreeable flavour.

  • This taste will be all absorbed by the carrot, which, of course, must be thrown away.

  • Opened the sausages and found them all less or more damaged, one tin in fact as nearly rotten as possible, which have to be thrown away; the others are now drying in the sun in the hopes we may be able to use them.

  • Am sorry also that the sausages, after dragging them so far, after all have to be thrown away, being perfectly unfit for use; had they been good they would have been a splendid thing.

  • Killed a sheep as the part of the last one that was not jerked got putrid during next day and had to be thrown away.

  • Housekeepers, both young and experienced, know how much food has to be thrown away because it will not keep sweet for even a few hours in the hot season.

  • And, in addition, it must also be remembered that warm baths have claims for consideration from a cleansing point of view, and a few words upon them in this respect will not be thrown away.

  • With proper Cookery nothing should be allowed to go to waste, nothing should be thrown away, unless it be absolutely useless.

  • This is perfectly true; under such circumstances valuable wine would simply be thrown away.

  • But some men are too valuable to be thrown away on the mission field; they are such successful workers, pastors, evangelists, leaders of thought.

  • Where should we have been to-day if He had thought Jesus too valuable to be thrown away upon us?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrown 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:
    being taken; collective mind; come hame; contemporary society; dark complexion; eighteen years; fresh beef; her cheeks; honest penny; its general; must seem; regular siege; small capitals; sulphureted hydrogen; thrown away; thrown back; thrown down; thrown from; thrown open; thrown over; thrown overboard; thrown upon; too bad; washing machines; whatever happened; white stripe