Sentence examples for are cast to from inspiring English sources

Both women are cast to type.

Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson are cast to perfection as the naive brother and his more obviously sinister partner.

As soon as that election moves into view we will leap towards a fantasy land where public services are delivered without spending any money and where genuinely difficult reforms are cast to one side.

When young-of-the-year menhaden or "peanut" bunker are present, stripers and blues become downright frenzied, striking virtually any lures that are cast to them and ignoring other kinds of equally available prey.

Colour lifting, historically Hollywood's "blacking up" of actors such as Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, has shifted to the extent that, occasionally, black actors are cast to play characters originally written as white, such as Idris Elba as Heimdall in Kenneth Branagh's Thor, and British actress Angel Coulby as Guinevere in the BBC's Merlin.

By floating his name, reckon some angry right-wingers, the prime minister was trying to push him forward.The comments add to a list of pent-up grievances among Conservative MPs, who are waiting until after votes are cast to make them public.

Donna Brazile was right: he had been cast to the curb.

A Kenyan might be cast to aid a marketing campaign in Kenya; a South African will be cast to appeal to South Africans.

The story was made into the film Marie (1985), and Thompson was cast to play himself.

The youth was cast to type — as a child in a concentration camp.

So far no one has been cast to wield the chainsaw.