Sentence examples for were cast away from inspiring English sources

What three things would you take if you were cast away on a desert island?

But if I were cast away on a desert island with only a single power outlet, I'd want my TiVo.

She told the BBC radio program Desert Island Discs that if she were cast away, her "luxury item" would be a lifetime subscription to Vogue.

In this account the epidemic, and not long habitation, explained the number of graves found by Hill; the medals had not been buried with their original owners, but had been treasured by the band for decades, until the time that the pestilence was blamed on "evil gifts from the whites" and they were cast away.

Black men, he said, "are not all hoodlums and criminals to be cast away".

Mr. Bell's greatest worry will be cast away when the police arrest the suspect, he said.

If he wasn't there in the first place, he wasn't in a position to be cast away.

For as long as there was Europe there had seemed to be hope that the wretchedness that holds United in its grip might be cast away.

He wanted to be cast away with the four last songs of Richard Strauss, he said, because they give you the courage to face death.

One side read: "Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755".

People no longer understood the concepts of participatory democracy or diversity of thinking, Now these outdated political vestiges are being cast away, most recently in Iraq.