Example Sentences

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The Chargers’ Austin Ekeler, whose nose for the end zone makes him a fantasy favorite, tweeted: “Everyone knows it’s tough to win without a top RB and yet they act like we are discardable widgets.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2023

I wanted to tell her what he had said to me and how it made me feel like I was about to be discarded, how it made me feel discardable.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2014

We have emerged in numbers at last, and are no longer invisible, discardable or silent.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2013

Standards of usage, then, are desirable, even if all of them are arbitrary and mortal and many of them are spurious and discardable.

From Slate • May 31, 2012

After I’d leafed through them I would throw them away, for they were infinitely discardable, and a day or two later I wouldn’t be able to remember w hat had been in them.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood