1. They can't just consign me to the scrap heap because I'm over fifty!

2. My first computer has been consigned to the scrap heap.

3. Many top class players end up on the scrap heap after a short career.

4. Aesthetic appreciation is thrown on the scrap heap.

5. Some people believe that Communism has been relegated/consigned to the scrap heap of history.

6. With the closure of the factory, thousands of workers have been thrown on the scrap heap.

7. Many people who had been with the company for years were just thrown on the scrap heap.

8. Thousands of Europe's tanks and guns are going to the scrap heap.

9. The decision to close the factory has consigned 6 000 people to the scrap heap.

10. It is too soon to say that the videodisc should be consigned to the scrap heap of technological history.

11. Earlier in my visit I had spotted some castings on his scrap heap which I was fairly sure belonged to a turbine.

12. Just a smear of protoplasm,[sentence dictionary] another speck on the biological scrap heap.

13. Harry Bromley is putting up his own money to try to keep the aircraft off the scrap heap.

14. But miners say that the continuing importation of cheap foreign coal is helping to put their jobs on the scrap heap.

15. As a result, they would be better educated and would not be thrown on the scrap heap.

16. They start their young lives by being thrown on the scrap heap at 16, 17 or 18.

17. The rainwater goods, a mixture of plastic, asbestos and cast iron were fit for the scrap heap.

18. Scientific batsmanship goes by the board. Aesthetic appreciation is thrown on the scrap heap.

19. Because there's a ragtag group of rebels facing an evil regime and their greatest hope may be the fighting fury of robots they assemble out of the scrap heap.

20. So now I am a virtual recluse – on the scrap heap of life.

21. When I discover after one or two tests that it is not going to allow itself to be tempered, I throw it on the scrap heap and sell it for a cent a pound when the junk man comes around.

1. Some people believe that Communism has been relegated/consigned to the scrap heap of history.

2. With the closure of the factory, thousands of workers have been thrown on the scrap heap.