Sentence examples for a casting off from inspiring English sources

Millie reminds me every day that life isn't only a casting off, that it can also be, at times, an accruing.

In Czechoslovakia before 1968, in West Germany and Hollywood in the 1970s and more recently in Taiwan, Iran and Uzbekistan, the metaphor signaled newness, iconoclasm, a casting off of tradition and a rediscovery of latent possibilities.

Earlier this month, a review of social work by Professor Eileen Munro offered the profession a fresh approach, calling for a return to hands-on social work and a casting off of unnecessary paperwork.

This is nothing short of spiritual devotion: a casting off of dogma, in the endeavor to discover one's own way, and original contribution.

The SS Mount Whitney sailed from Mobile, Alabama, to load iron ore from a mine on the Orinoco River in Venezuela, and when it slipped loose of tugboats and dropped the harbor pilot at the entrance to the bay, I was astonished by a sense of complete and boundless freedom, a casting off of all the troubles lurking in the hearts and onshore schemes of men.

Then count walls to make sure you go the right number of quarters, and you should never make a mistake on a CAST OFF again.

The route from being a one-off, to a cast off, to jail for drug dealing is now well trodden.

Another friend updated his status asking if anyone knew how to take a cast off after breaking his wrist in a car accident.

Yet, they ultimately form a bond that pushes Maleficent to save her where the stupid prince, who looks like a cast off from "One Direction," can't.

Aquaria missed not only with Capricia Corn's drag name (why wasn't it just Capricorn?) but also their costumes, which seemed like a cast off from Naomi Smalls.

"In those days when you were 25 you were a cast-off," she recalled in 2003.