Thrown-away (Adjective)
Meaning
Thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- She spent her Saturday morning scouring thrift stores for unique and stylish thrown-away items to refashion into new pieces for her clothing line.
- Volunteers worked tirelessly to salvage and repurpose the thrown-away materials from the abandoned construction site.
- Local people criticized the government's decision to leave the thrown-away debris from the hurricane uncollected for weeks after the storm passed.
- Children wearing thrown-away Christmas party clothes walked beside volunteers who were distributing charity gift boxes in the shelter.
- It turned out the museum had unknowingly thrown-away some significant historical artifacts, now priceless relics, thinking they were nothing more than dust-gathering junk from a bygone era.