How To Use cast away In A Sentence
- He cast away his baggage and fled to Shanghai.
- Kaahumanu, abolished tabu, and his subjects cast away their idols, and fell into indifferent scepticism, the high priest Hewahewa being the first to light the iconoclastic torch, having previously given his opinion that there was only one great akua or spirit in lani, the heavens. The Hawaiian Archipelago
- There is not in the whole annals of aerostation a more moving catastrophe than that of the unfortunate Comte Zambeccari, who, during an aerial journey on October the 7th, 1804, was cast away on the waves of the Adriatic. Wonderful Balloon Ascents
- We were cast away by the storm on an island without food or water.
- They were a bunch of raggle-taggle wanderers, individuals, cast away from society to partake on the last quest of each of their lives.
- We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness, of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
- At that time I had only had one conference with one about it; and for books I had only seen some few, and those so exceedingly inconsiderable, and so fully familistical, forced with so much contempt of the word, that I was not willing to cast away the least moment on them. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
- Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
- In some ways you could read Cast Away as a tale of escape from the ties that bind us to systems, technologies, and other people, though the character's desperation to get home seems to tell us otherwise.
- They were cast away on a desert island without food or water.