'cast it away' is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
It is used when one wants to suggest discarding something, such as a physical object, an idea, or even a habit. For example, "John decided to cast away his old habit of procrastinating and focus on his studies."
And although the show opened with Mr. Armani's signature beige, he soon cast it away for fuchsia pink or deep blue (handbags included) and for the mint green that powdered the models' eyes.
But some do not discount the effects of an awful incident from a year ago that put Sedona's New Age community in a bad light and that, to some degree, still lingers, despite efforts by metaphysical people to cast it away.
He reflected that he might have to make embarrassing explanations if he threw the bundle overboard while he was with them, and he deferred the act until the boat landed, thinking he could easily cast it away in an ash barrel on the way to the office.
Any open-minded critic who regularly receives offerings of new books or translations from Europe, the Middle East or Asia knows the bitter experience of opening a book by an unknown foreign author with anticipation, only to cast it away in irritation or boredom, finding it impossible to engage with a novel that was esteemed in a distant land.
In the present system you cast your vote – you cast it away.
This thing is so deeply rooted in society that people just don't cast it away easily".
Wolfe may be taking some of the romance out of chocolate, but he isn't casting it away.
But the problem is not confined to referendums: in an election, you may cast your vote, but you are also casting it away for the next few years.
But the real revelation is Downton Abbey's Julian Ovenden as Gaylord Ravenal, the rakish gambler who steals the heart of Andy and Parthy's daughter, Magnolia, then coldly casts it away.
In the third stanza, the poet asks the nightingale to "Fade far away", casting it off just as the narrator in "Ode to Indolence" rejects the Love, Ambition, and Poesy and the poet in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" banishes the figures on the urn to silence.
If there is any word of King James's Bible that is not in alignment with the nature of God, I will cast it far away.
