castaway

The Seahawks were paced by a brilliant performance by quarterback Sam Darnold, a Jets castaway who rebuilt himself in Minnesota before landing in Seattle this past offseason.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

Cleverly cast brother and sister Lupita Nyong’o and Junior Nyong’o play castaway twins Viola and Sebastian, with Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sandra Oh and Daphne Rubin-Vega among other well-known actors rounding out the cast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

The two other prominent theories are that Earhart crash-landed on or near the then-Japanese Marshall Islands, or that she made it to Nikumaroro island near Kiribati and died a castaway there.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025

She also offers these words as “an army of / alphabets to keep us warm at night” as a castaway returning with vital knowledge.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

But they tended to be bigger than hawksbills, often too big to lift out of the water for the weakened castaway that I became.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

They are deep enough to create a distant shore of the imagination, where readers can live as castaways from cable news, TikTok and the dull throb of the ordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Jack Thorne, who co-wrote last year’s prize-winning “Adolescence,” returns with another story of fractured childhood with an admirable, engrossing new adaptation of William Golding’s much-taught novel of boy castaways, “The Lord of the Flies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

In some cases, people are just set off on their own to a deserted island to cosplay as castaways.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2024

This show, 46 seasons in and still going strong, returns with the host Jeff Probst and 18 castaways who are headed to Fiji to compete and survive.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

One night, surveying the bearded, shaggy castaways around him, Shackleton ordered haircuts for all.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong