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How to use discard in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Discard means to throw away, to reject. Example: “During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.”

Examples of discard by meaning

verbTo throw away, to reject.

  • Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68

nounOne or more discarded playing cards in a card game.

  • "Have a look at Crediton's discard and then come back."1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards...

nounThe act of discarding.

  • Then the arm descended and carried out the discard.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards...

nounA temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.

  • Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.2017, Andrew Troelsen, Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core, page 120

More sentences with discard

  • During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.From the entry fire
  • After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.From the entry marinate
  • The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.From the entry structure
  • Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately.From the entry run down
  • Are your sure you want to discard that old girl?From the entry girl
  • Desperate to hold onto power, Pervez Musharraf has discarded Pakistan's constitutional framework and declared a state of emergency.From the entry hold onto
  • This refers to Republican officials that advocate fascism: they support overthrowing democracy or discarding the US Constitution.2026, Richard Stallman, “Glossary”, in stallman.org. From the entry seditious
  • Pushing (oshi) means discarding tiles that might deal in, all for the sake of maximizing your win.2026, Senba Kurono, 136 Ready-to-Use Mahjong Strategy and Tactics, page 73. From the entry deal in
  • Discard the unmeated portion and retain the two remaining portions of the wing.2020, Tim Pinsonneault, A Cookbook for Masons. From the entry unmeated
  • Out of 21 patients, three subjects were discarded due to movement artifacts.2015 July 9, “An EEG-fMRI Study on the Termination of Generalized Spike-And-Wave Discharges in Absence Epilepsy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry electroclinical
  • It is important to note however, that other typical features of Freemasonism were deliberately discarded.2014, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Resonant Alterities: Sound, Desire and Anxiety in Non-Realist Fiction, →ISBN. From the entry Freemasonism
  • I suppose every garden has one: an elephants' graveyard of discarded labels.2012, Katerine Swift, The Morville Year. From the entry elephants' graveyard
  • Discordians understand that every catma may one day be discarded on the grounds that it is nonsense.2012, John Higgs, The KLF, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, published 2013, page 31. From the entry catma
  • Here, the gadgets are throwaway items used for their visual effect, then discarded.2011 October 26, John Lui, “Musketeers victim of identity crisis [review of The Three Musketeers (2011)]”, in The Straits Times (Life!…. From the entry steampunk
  • Discard the excess fat from the roasting pan but reserve some for making the pinçage.2011 September 13, The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), The Professional Chef, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 263. From the entry pinçage
  • Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner.2010, Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue, page 101. From the entry kip
  • The other solution to the central enigma of wormhold physics is to simply discard Thales' doctrine.2010, Enrico Rodrigo, The Physics of Stargates, page 323. From the entry enigma
  • When West discarded a club, South could have won with dummy's ace and played on crossruff lines.2009 January 8, Phillip Alder, “Part 1 of an Experiment, Ending in a Trump Coup”, Bridge, in New York Times. From the entry crossruff
  • However, there are still large quantities of round fish liver discarded at sea.2007, Kristberg Kristbergsson, Sigurjon Arason, “Utilization of By-Products in the Fish Industry”, in Vasso Oreopoulou, Winfried Russ…. From the entry cod liver
  • Sara considered writing to tell him about it, but discarded the idea as overtly fangirly.2007, Lucy A. Snyder, “Sara and the Telecats”, in Sparks and Shadows: Stories and Poetry, HW Press, page 106. From the entry fangirly
  • Used and discarded Fls–French letters–floated in the slime, little opaque vessels carrying human seed into oblivion.2005, Shilpa Agarwal, Haunting Bombay. From the entry fl
  • Asians always pick out the most curious and most discarded English names from books and TV.1996 Chay Yew, A Language of Their Own, Two Plays, Grove/Atlantic Inc.. From the entry elmo
  • Kalyanaraman allegedly ordered the discarding of cultures of an AIDS-related virus isolated by French scientists.1986 February 15, Elizabeth Pincus, “The CDC: When Politics & Egos Hamper Saving Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page 2. From the entry full
  • Oils containing discarded dioxins have been sprayed on horse farms in Missouri to control dust.1986, Benjamin Walter, Malcolm Getz, “Social and Economic Effects of Toxic Waste Disposal”, in Sheldon Kamieniecki, Robert O’Brien…. From the entry dioxin
  • This has the effect of discarding the already formatted text of the retrieved page.1980 October, Luis F. Cabrera, “A Performance Evaluation Study of UNIX”, in Harold Joseph Highland, editor, Computer Performance…. From the entry /dev/null
  • I would suggest discarding bookteaching and, with the money saved, running practical courses.1979, Neville Bennett, David McNamara -, Focus on Teaching: Readings in the Observation and Conceptualisation of Teaching, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry bookteaching
  • Discarding supernaturalism, root and branch, he reduces all Christianity to Jesus.1966, Vernon C. Grounds, “The Graveyard Theology: A Brief Introduction to Brash Infidelity”, in Is God “Dead”?, Grand Rapids, Mich.…. From the entry Jesusologist
  • For example, hardware on doors was discarded, and stock wood knobs and snuggers were used.1944, Pencil Points - Volume 26, Part 1, page 39. From the entry snugger
  • New canvas is used first as undercloths, and these as required are made to replace discarded overcloths.1931, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain), Bulletin - Issues 316-327, page 2. From the entry undercloth
  • The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.1926, A[rthur] [S]tanley Eddington, “Survey of the Problem”, in The Internal Constitution of the Stars, page 1. From the entry misleading
  • When he is the minor hand he knows everything that is to be known before he discards.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry pique
  • Ransacking the drawers of the dresser he came upon a discarded, tiny, ragged handkerchief.1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips &…. From the entry heliotrope
  • Consequently we discard our præceptor—our first medical love—and seek a new.1902, Frank Lehman, in a publication of The Hahnemannian Institute, volume IX, issue 2, page 33. From the entry præceptor
  • I ultimately discarded this angle for three reasons.2022, Lightning Jay, “Constructing Local History Units with Document-Based Lessons”, in The History Teacher, volume 5, number 2, page 340. From the entry hit job
  • Encoded in YIMBY ideology is a belief that the best thing to do with NIMBYs is discard them.2022 June 5, Conor Dougherty, “Twilight of the NIMBY”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2022. From the entry yimby
  • Across the Transhimalaya, wherever villagers discard carcasses and military camps dispose of their excess food, dog numbers are on the increase.2021 May 29, Janaki Lenin, “Tales from the Transhimalaya”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 29 May 2021. From the entry Transhimalaya

Meaning of discard

  1. verb To throw away, to reject.
  2. verb To make a discard; to throw out a card.
  3. verb To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

Full definition of discard

Questions about discard in a sentence

How do you use discard in a sentence?
Discard is used as a verb and noun. For example: “During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.”
What is a short sentence with discard?
“I ultimately discarded this angle for three reasons.”
What does discard mean?
Discard means to throw away, to reject.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discard (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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