cast off

How to use cast off in a sentence

They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.

The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

Mrs. Newbolt was looking away toward the hills, a dreamy cast in her placid face.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.

Happening to cast his eyes that way, he saw a light where he had never seen one before—in the little unused chapel.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

Aristide glowingly accepted the invitation and cast a look of triumph around the café.

Cast the beam from thine eye before noticing the mote in that of thy neighbour.

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub, the prince of devils.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985