Sentence examples for casting it off from inspiring English sources
For three years I had walked this path every day, morning and afternoon, with the weight of the day before me or with the relief of casting it off, and even now that I lived on campus I walked it often, to the store or the gym, to cabs waiting at the gates.
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.
Some cast it off after the Taliban's overthrow, but many more did not.
He had another name and another life, but like most migrants to the Islamic State, he had cast it off.
It was made also by the very people who suffered under the yoke of European colonialism and sought to cast it off.
Mansoor, now a military history professor at the Ohio State University, said he agreed with Dempsey that defeating Isis required Sunnis in Iraq and Syria to turn on it, but "Isis has proven themselves too strong, too virulent and too violent to enable local inhabitants to rise up and cast it off without significant help from the outside.
I'll be the first to say that this optimism isn't exactly warranted, and I intend to cast it off like an old coat at the end of this post.
It sweeps that dust-up with a brush and casts it off to the Lion's Gate Bridge.
It frequently mentions how constricting Cora's corset is and how much better she feels when she casts it off.
