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How to use the word discard in a Sentence?

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The story of Naaman reminds us that Christmas is the time when each of us needs to find the courage to take off our armor, discard the trappings of our roles, our social recognition and the glitter of this world and adopt the humility of Naaman.

Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've spent my entire career fighting for freedom in the Army and as a state legislator, yet Joe Biden wants to discard me because I oppose his coercive forced vaccination mandate, i believe individuals should be able to freely give their consent, without fear of retaliation or coercion before receiving the Covid vaccine.

The Michigan Republican

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Why do people keep things? Because they need them, because they want them, because they're too afraid to get rid of them, because they're too lazy to discard them, because they don't have the time to dispose of them, because they just don't care enough to remove them, because they are unable to shed them for some reason.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

Please be extra cautious with anything that could start a fire in the coming days by being sure it is no longer burning when you discard it. Be sure to extinguish all campfires in areas where they are permitted before leaving the area.

National Weather Service

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of the guards taught me what being a man was all about, he talked about growing up, about using the positive people in your life and trying to discard the negative people. Misery loves company, and a lot of the guys I grew up with were just that -- misery. Criminal acts were all they knew.

Kenneth Cook

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

George Washington

added by Normando
4 years ago

We tell moms,' you know, If you are feeling tipsy, drunk, woozy, any effects of alcohol, you shouldn't be caring for your infant, nor should you be breastfeeding your infant,' that's when a mom will pump and discard her milk. But that's for getting rid of the milk for comfort's sake.

Diane Spatz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There's a temptation, given the American public's frustration with the political system,... to throw the baby out with the bathwater, and' let's discard all these institutions that have served us incredibly well for 200 + years,'.

Mark Sanford

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People who have FSGS, up until this point they’d say, ‘The recipient has FSGS — now we have to discard the kidney,’.

Jeffrey Veale

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The study importantly illustrates that recipient outcomes are similar to those obtained from donors who die from other causes. It also illustrates how the transplant system has successfully incorporated the use of organs from these donors into clinical practice, resulting in benefits to many patients, underutilization of organs from these donors still occurs and is probably underestimated in this paper by looking at 'discard rates' since this does not account for organs that are never procured despite the possibility of providing benefit to potential recipients.

David Klassen

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Underutilization of organs from these donors still occurs and is probably underestimated in this paper by looking at 'discard rates' since this does not account for organs that are never procured despite the possibility of providing benefit to potential recipients.

David Klassen

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Over three billion people can only afford that type of shoe, they hang on to them, they fix them, they duct tape them, mend them and then usually discard them.

Erin Smith

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The world community did not show enough vigilance, will and consolidation to prevent that war and save millions of lives, what kind of a lesson is still needed today to discard old and frayed ideological disagreements and geopolitical games and to unite in the fight against international terrorism?

President Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Jeb Bush don't get to just pick and choose the amendments Jeb Bush like and discard the ones that don't agree with Jeb Bush political agenda.

Rick Perry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The scale of waste in this country is astonishing. As a nation we discard about 15 million tons of food a year, at least four million thrown out by households.

Justin Welby

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

David Mamet

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

Lao Tzu

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Lao Tzu

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Konrad Lorenz

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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