1. Miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no prospects.

2. Three years later he was on the political scrapheap.

3. Many older people feel they have been consigned to the medical scrapheap.

4. What does it mean if you have been there for 20 years and feel you are thrown on the scrapheap?

5. The rejection meant our daughter was already on life's scrapheap.

6. He liked the way female models were thrown on the scrapheap by their late twenties.

7. In a society that is being continuously transformed by market forces, traditional values are dysfunctional and anyone who tries to live by them risks ending up on the scrapheap.

8. Whenever his inventions don't work quite perfectly, Wendel simply throws them on the scrapheap and starts again.

1. Miners have been thrown on the scrapheap with no prospects.