In a sentence
Six example sentences with discard, each labelled with its topic.
She turned over the top discard, saw the red queen, and knew her opponent had made a mistake.
Gaming
The stockpot was built entirely from discards: onion skins, carrot tops, and the bones nobody wanted.
Cooking
He assembled the whole sculpture from workshop discards, welding bent bicycle frames to a stack of dented tins.
Art
Fishery discards, the undersized catch tipped back over the side, once made up a third of everything the trawlers hauled.
Environment
The zine was built from the shoot's discards, frames the client had passed over for being too dark or too still.
Photography
The archive keeps the novelist's discards, forty pages of dialogue she cut before the book went to the printer.
Literature
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