castaway
IPA: kˈæstʌweɪ
noun
- (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.
- A discarded person or thing.
- An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
adjective
- Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
- Shipwrecked.
- Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.
cast away
IPA: kˈæstʌwˈeɪ
verb
- To discard.
- (nautical) To abandon or maroon.
- (computing, programming, transitive) To eliminate by means of a cast operation.
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Examples of "castaway" in Sentences
Examples of "cast-away" in Sentences
- The Straight Nopes are a collection of near daily critiques on cast-away style in modern American culture.
- They found one old barn-like shed stacked with ancient cast-away junk, and Julian rummaged in it with great interest.
- Bioshock is a first person shooter game in which you play as “a cast-away in Rapture, an underwater Utopia torn apart by civil war”.
- This class included those who had been about the streets and yards, back of barns and in old corner-lots, picking up nails or cast-away bits of iron.
- The bleaching bones of cattle that had perished, or the broken fragments of wagons or cast-away articles, were thickly strewn on either side of the highway.
- For, pursuing the image of the cast-away blundering upon the complications of an unknown scheme of life, it was I, the castaway, who was the savage, the simple innocent child of nature.
- Elizabeth making a Voyage to the East India, were cast-away, and wracked on the Island near to the Coast of Australis, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women, whereof one was a Negro.
- Crusoe — both were associated with the spirit of adventure; but whilst the imagined life of the cast-away mariner never failed to seem glaringly real, the true story of the Englishwoman ruling over
- Algoa Bay is not much of a shelter, and it is always a chance whether a sudden south-easter may not come tearing down upon the shipping, necessitating a sudden tripping of anchors and running out to sea to avoid the fate which is staring us warningly in the face in the shape of the gaunt ribs or rusty cylinders of sundry cast-away vessels.
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