Below you will find example sentences with "throw away". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Throw Away in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: throw
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 18.4 words

Words in this phrase

throw away

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • throw can mean: To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air. Frequent word
  • away can mean: From a place, hence. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

2 coins throw away from each 1× always throw away the disposable 1× and throw away the key 1× consider we throw away enough food 1× decided to throw away the teaching 1× don t throw away that old 1× million to throw away 1× now to throw away or give 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a principal in 1× always throw away 1× an eko park 1× and he finally 1× barca would go 1× consider we throw 1×

Common sentence endings:

a few decades 1× across trash cans 1× and a kitchen 1× away the game 1× bathwater just yet 1× computer just yet 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

stone 4× people 3× take 2× fans 2× houses 2× close 2× trash 2× yet 2× play 2× girls 2× now 1× give 1×

Related phrases

free throw walked away drove away further away stay away miles away ran away passed away feet away stayed away

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around throw:

free throw 20×

Just before it in the phrase index:

throughout north threw two threw down threatening injuries threatening behaviour threatened species

Just after it in the phrase index:

throwing away throwing error thursday afternoon thursday aug thursday august thursday evening

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

walked away drove away further away stay away miles away ran away

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "throw away" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 18.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 2 coins throw away from each, always throw away the disposable, stone, people and take stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with free throw, walked away, drove away and free throw, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with throw away

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

And throw away the key. (5 words)

Always throw away the disposable earplugs. (6 words)

Don’t throw away that old computer just yet! (9 words)

Longer example sentences

It is as if efforts to push this anti-trans policy throw away the teamwork script in favor of insisting that it’s not fair for girls to have to play with noncisgender girls. (34 words)

One corner of the ground saw away fans and home fans only a £2 coins throw away from each other, a measurement that was well tested during the match. (29 words)

Encouraged by his parents, he received tuition as a young boy but after just one year he decided to throw away the teaching books and play by ear. (28 words)

Exclamation examples

A principal in West Virginia went to throw away trash and found a large bear hiding in the school’s dumpster! (21 words)

Don’t throw away that old computer just yet! (9 words)

Example sentences (20)

Take the time now to throw away or give away junk that’s accumulated in your drawers, closets, and garage for a few decades.

One corner of the ground saw away fans and home fans only a £2 coins throw away from each other, a measurement that was well tested during the match.

Always throw away the disposable earplugs.

And he finally adds that he'll take the result and throw away the game.

And throw away the key.

An eko-park contact zoo located just a stone’s throw away from Piešťany houses tens of species of animals to get close to.

A principal in West Virginia went to throw away trash and found a large bear hiding in the school’s dumpster!

Barca would go on to throw away a 3-0 aggregate lead against Liverpool in the semis.

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Consider we throw away enough food every day to feed uncountable people.

Don’t throw away that old computer just yet!

Encouraged by his parents, he received tuition as a young boy but after just one year he decided to throw away the teaching books and play by ear.

Gutkha is being sold in close vicinity to railway stations, schools, colleges and in some cases, at a stone's throw away from police chowkies.

He's willing to throw away his moral obligations to his people and his nation,' he said.

It is as if efforts to push this anti-trans policy throw away the teamwork script in favor of insisting that it’s not fair for girls to have to play with noncisgender girls.

Just a stone’s throw away, 23 houses and 15 flats are being built in Stirling Way.

Let us not throw away the baby with the bathwater just yet.

Once we open the bottle, most of us will just throw away the plastic pull tab inside the lid.

People keep the things they want to throw away with them until they do come across trash cans.

Senator Deb Patterson (D-Salem) had another million to throw away.

She and the children live just a stone’s throw away from Rahmatullah in a tiny cottage consisting of one room and a kitchen.

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