Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Twenty years ago electronic waste in the U.S. was growing because people were discarding the big, boxy cathode-ray-tube televisions.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021

In addition to observing how stories affected their price, Speed and his team were interested in unlocking what was in a person’s mind’s eye when they described the thing they were discarding.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2016

The article's authors were discarding a doctrine that some of them had helped shape: McNamara included the first-use option in his "flexible response" strategy, and Bundy still believed in the option until last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

A family of father, golden-haired mother, and two young daughters, sympathetically attired, had just arrived, and were discarding their outer wrappings with the assistance of host and hostess.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The reservists were discarding their motley civilian attire and were being provided with drill uniforms that had at one time been white but were now dyed to a colour nearly approaching khaki.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)