castoff
Example Sentences
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The Seahawks traded their starting quarterback to another franchise that was desperate for one and turned to someone else’s castoff to replace him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Zach McKinstry, IF/OF, Tigers: Another Dodgers castoff finding a home in Detroit is McKinstry, who has played shortstop, third base, second base and two outfield positions this season.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
Cattrall is currently co-starring in "Glamorous," a CW castoff snapped up by Netflix in which she plays cosmetics mogul and former model Madolyn Addison.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2023
People’s castoff items are “a very generative source for art,” he says.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
Breakfast that morning was a feast—a bit of the rice boiled to a gruel in a castoff earthenware pot, served up in a bowl carved from a gourd.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
