threw away

past tense of throw away

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of threw away Masataka Yoshida walked and Romy Gonzalez singled to put two men on with one out, and Ceddanne Rafaela reached on an infield single, which Pirates third baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa threw away to allow Yoshida to score. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 30 Aug. 2025 Spurs threw away a two-goal lead in those final stages, then lost on penalties. Jay Harris, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025 Employees threw away the foods in garbage bags. Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for threw away
Verb
  • According to a criminal complaint, Briceno, whom authorities said is an undocumented immigrant, used a firearm to shoot inside the doorway of the bar and then discarded the firearm, which law enforcement never recovered.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Those with any sign of fungal disease or pest activity should be placed in a plastic bag and discarded.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those of us who spent a lot of time at our grandma’s house can spot Tupperware containers in two seconds flat.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • More of their budgets are spent on health care than what's spent by younger working adults, for example.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The season will detail 10 different cases, including a Las Vegas journalist ambushed outside his residence, a body dumped in a NYC tunnel, and a mission to discover the identity of a victim found in the East River.
    Giana Levy, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Here, they’re treated like sweet potatoes or cabbages, dumped by the dozen into large plastic bags, or piled into car trunks waiting for sale.
    Haicen Yang, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Presumably, this is because those players lost their ‘development’ period — their early teenage years — to the war.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Eastern Washington lost its opening game last week and has not had a winning season since 2021.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On a recent morning, sweaty workers unloaded cargo boats by hand, carrying crates of beer, sacks of rice, and bags of flour on their shoulders 100 yards up the muddy riverbank to trucks waiting on the wharf.
    John Otis, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Early on, Paul unloaded on Cena with some punches to the gut in the corner.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In 2010, retailer Gap ditched its decades-old blue box logo for a more minimalist design.
    Ali McCadden, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In January, the insurer ditched its traditional pharmacy benefits model, dropping CVS Caremark for third-party pharmacy benefit manager services except specialty drugs.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Threw away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/threw%20away. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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