Sentence examples for it casts off from inspiring English sources

It casts off its stalk and becomes a free-living juvenile starfish about 1 mm in diameter.

At its simplest, a photo of gleaming metallic paint so bright that it casts off glitter in the light documents of the aesthetics of racing.

"Easily tricked, it casts off the life-pulse of nature's ancient rhythms and dons the gaudy colors of modernity, even in the depths of winter.

You have to wonder if he, the original Luton lad, is affected by this ideological split from his hometown, as it casts off associations that he can't.

The detritus of urban life litters the streets of Boerum Hill: candy wrappers, soda cans and other jetsam, much of it cast off by people walking through on their way to downtown Brooklyn.

In the infamous Protium transaction in 2009 it cast off a $12.3bn collection of toxic assets to a Cayman Islands-registered fund, led by departing Barclays employees, which borrowed a cool $12.6bn from Barclays itself to do the deal.

While eating the soil, the earthworm absorbs the nutrients it needs and casts off the rest.

If Scotland ever does what it's threatening, and casts off from Nigel Farage's England (now there's a man who looks like he uses Maestro cologne), I will miss her very much.

If Verizon has its way, it will cast off its reputation as a big, boring telephone company battling a unionized work force and emerge as a digital media player mentioned in the same breath as Snapchat and Pokémon.

It announced last April that it would cast off its American and Canadian TV operations and license the Philips brand to Funai in exchange for a royalty on sets sold.

Since the 1980's, it has cast off its fish restaurants, trucking business, printing and chemical companies.