noun
definition
Something temporary and disposable.
adjective
definition
Disposable; intended for a single use prior to being discarded.
example
As the film opens, a martial-drum-dominated version of the "Star Wars" theme and the inevitable bottom-to-top print crawl inform us that the Clone Wars, a conflict that originated as a throwaway line in the original 1977 film... http//www.nysun.com/arts/star-wars-clone-wars-painted-in-the-stars/83922/
definition
Extemporaneous; off the cuff.
example
The host made a throwaway remark about the president that was later repeated on the television news.
definition
Selected or used without care or attention.
Examples of throwaway in a Sentence
They are not throwaway items that will clutter up landfill sites for generations.
Or your old drill, mobile phone or any other electrical product broken or deemed surplus to requirements in our increasingly throwaway society?
It is a measure of the abiding affection for this apparently throwaway pop group that they are still well remembered nine years on.
The images also seem throwaway, with little attention paid to the traditional qualities of the medium.
In the course of oral argument Lord Hoffmann suggested it had been a " throwaway remark ".
These five musicians from Sussex have created something of intelligence and worth that begs analysis, and not some throwaway pop.
Tomorrow 's adults hold the key to turning around our throwaway society.
The news blackout will not take effect here, on Kirkby Times, were free Speech isn't just a throwaway phrase.
I know that that's a throwaway comment expressing your frustration strathclyde, but I'm utterly convinced of the opposite!
Nowadays, of course, the Comic Relief joke is to use the inclusion of a high profile celebrity as a throwaway gag.
The second telling was fast, throwaway and unembellished, as Pickering was up against competition from many other tellers.
Lear 's ' let me not be mad ' is no throwaway line.
One answer from the company members was an almost throwaway 'not a lot '.
He made sometimes bitter throwaway remarks, the full weight of which could not have been felt until after his death.
One answer from the company members was an almost throwaway 'not a lot ' .
Food in the United States is so inexpensive as a percentage of national income that it literally is a throwaway item.
Children still earned some extra money by gathering bottles and cans for recycling and schools engaged in paper drives, but the growth of plastic and the throwaway mentality outstripped these conservation methods.
Despite some of the concerns associated with so-called "throwaway" items, there's something to be said for an evening gown that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.