Sentence examples for casts off from inspiring English sources
verb
Third person singular of cast off
The political parties cast off leaders the way Dame Edna Everage casts off frocks.
A day with almost no light except what the snow casts off.
While eating the soil, the earthworm absorbs the nutrients it needs and casts off the rest.
They had to do this [he whistles and, using an imaginary fishing rod, casts off].
Von Sternberg casts off social graces to confront the destructive primal forces from which society and its dramas arise.
For Indian readers, one of the most upsetting parts of that break-out is that Halwai casts off his family.
The boat is long and mahoganied with waiters and a bar, and casts off from the left bank above the Sint Servaasbrug, the oldest bridge in the Netherlands.
A new follicle develops after each menstrual period, casts off an egg (ovulation), and, after ovulation, forms a new structure (the corpus luteum).
"Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs," Malcolm writes.
As she inhabits and casts off identities, exploring the act of watching and being watched, she may have us questioning whether we're witnessing one performer or many.
But Paul casts off the stuffiness of his destiny: one day, despite having a wife and two young children, he leaves - and fetches up on Ellis Island.
