cast away
Example Sentences
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It’s an issue of confidence, with Emily Mann directing her cast away from Williams’s assured dialogue and toward their characters’ flailing.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2023
"We recite Koranic verses and blow on him to cast away the evil eye," he told AFP.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2022
So relax your shoulders, unclench your jaw, cast away any negative misconceptions that you shouldn't have dessert for breakfast, and cut yourself a slice of this rustic Apple galette.
From Salon • Apr. 2, 2022
“Donkeys have been completely cast away from society,” said King, who never married and adopted a child in 2006.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2021
You won’t have anything else here.” and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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