outcasts

Example Sentences

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But Mary is different from the superpowered variety of the trope, or the brilliant outcasts in teen movies like “Mean Girls,” “Sixteen Candles,” “The Edge of Seventeen” or “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

From Salon • May 20, 2026

It makes more sense that the feeling of family promised by rock touring life would appeal to Charlie Brown; it often calls to creative dreamers and outcasts with a subconscious need to belong.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

The Flynns are screwed up but they don’t mean to be cruel; like Harper, they side with “other outcasts and outsiders.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Justice Brett Kavanaugh has called same-sex marriage a “very important right” and declared that gay Americans “cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth.”

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

And so he continues ministering to the lepers and outcasts.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver