cast away
Example Sentences
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It’s nice to know that there are still corners of the internet bright enough to cast away the darkness that often feels suffocating.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
COSTNER: When they weren’t useful, they were just cast away.
From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024
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
Many of the luxuries chosen by the interviewees being cast away are also of a different time.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022
The field was strewn with stricken orcs and men, and a reek arose of torches cast away, sputtering out in swirling smoke.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
