Verb (used with object) : to discard an old hat.    From Dictionary.com. 

Janet remembers being told to clear up her bedroom, knee-deep in discarded clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Miniver] Reference

What was once discarded is now the source of warmth, comfort and individual expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hats Off To `e ko logic] Reference

Then votes for party under the threshold aren't discarded from the total of the coalition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Elections Latest] Reference

The group bounced the phrase around until McConnell came up with: “It will end in discarded lies.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Present at the Creation] Reference

This old volume had been found among the books discarded from the private library of a New York physi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Montessori Method] Reference

The Duke now condescended to recall his discarded cousin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)] Reference

Began a novel called the discarded daughter, by Mrs. Southworth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary, April 15, 1861-July 31, 1862,] Reference

How about the plastic package almost every product we use comes in ... discarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potential African Record Black Marlin Eaten By Sharks] Reference

This water is eventually discarded, which is a colossal waste of the precious resource.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

A French officer, sword discarded, held his hands to his face as blood oozed between his fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Escape]

Gouverneur had a personal end in making the inquiry, and who at any rate did not care to be known as a discarded and broken-hearted lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference

What if "discarded" embryos become short in supply?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Democrats Pitch on Stem Cell Research Stinks] Reference

OK, so they find a cure for something using "discarded" embryos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Democrats Pitch on Stem Cell Research Stinks] Reference

Did you make another bread with the 'discarded' starter portions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recipe: Old-Fashioned Baguettes (Παραδοσιακό Γαλλικό Ψωμί)] Reference

In exchange, the "discarded" were promised to be taken back home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

In his diseased imagination, Othello is sure that Desdemona has 'discarded' him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

After Hayley Mills, though, and I don't know how it happened, that was kind of discarded, that idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Who Will Win Big on Oscar Night? - March 26, 2000] Reference

What can you take that makes you feel instantly well again, rather than like some kind of discarded husk?.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 6th, 2007] Reference

Folk street-art in discarded urban space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: February 8, 2004 - February 14, 2004 Archives] Reference

If the unsightly nature of the "discarded" part is your problem, try Martha Stewart's clever solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [mental_floss Blog] Reference

In the context that performers have sales/life cycle of about 6 months to a year, and are then "discarded".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Timm said foxes, opossums and squirrels often made meals of things such as discarded burger buns and leftover fries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansan.com stories] Reference

Novak claims that the husband of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame was "discarded" last year by John Kerry's presidential campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consortiumnews.com] Reference

The accused manager told Bi-Lo officials that he had most items at his home, but the meat had been "discarded," the report states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anderson Independent Mail Stories] Reference

"discarded" from physics if one is to follow scientific method rather than pure dogma.    From Wordnik.com.  [ZPEnergy.com] Reference

"discarded" embryos may be the right call, or not, but it is precisely a political decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Dakota Politics] Reference

"discarded" sounds of the local environments and cultures to fashion a coherent narrative voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gadling] Reference

Umbilical cords are ordinarily discarded at birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seizing Nature's Lifeline] Reference

It also said it had already discarded 200,000 fraudulent votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [All for Nothing] Reference

Latin America could certainly use some of this discarded treasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil's Junkyard Angel] Reference

One discarded foreskin can generate enough to help thousands of burn victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Replacement Parts] Reference

It's also a vision that sometimes sounds like a discarded plot outline for Futurama.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Digital Galaxy] Reference

Scientists have also discarded another old stereotype, that almost all dyslexics are boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dyslexia And The New Science Of Reading] Reference

If it does, that embryo is discarded; only healthy-seeming ones go into the woman's uterus.    From Wordnik.com.  [BRAVE NEW MONKEY] Reference

Fertility clinics already possess 100,000 unused frozen embryos that are slated to be discarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle For Bush's Soul] Reference

They bought a discarded, which may be the word, or excess military equipment, ski-jump carrier from Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Pacific Strategy] Reference

Hunters buy the sweets cheaply from factories like Hershey Foods, which packages discarded product into cubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bears: Just Say No To Sugar] Reference

And walking past what looked like a discarded wooden barrel another unique Australian animal that resembles a furry fireplug surprised us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Macphersons: Week 47: Operation: Kangaroos] Reference