How To Use Cast down In A Sentence
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It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
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And once again, she was racing ahead, with eyes cast downward and ear buds plugging her ears.
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What about the shock in heaven when Lucifer, the light bearer they called the anointed cherub, led a revolt in heaven and a third of the angels, the bible says, were cast down.
CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2002
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Booker T. Washington made his mark with the infamous “Atlanta Compromise” speech, in which he entreated black Southerners to “cast down their bucket where [they were]” and accommodate white Southerners in hope of obtaining equality through humility and diligence.
W. E. B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington: Two Sides of the Same Coin | Edwardian Promenade
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The enemy cast down their weapons.
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Her eyes were cast down - almost in a guilty manner - to the ground and her fingers were wrapped tightly around the rim of the gold mask.
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The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son's words and began bustlingly searching for something.
War and Peace
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Cooper crossed his arms over his chest, his eyes still cast downward.
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Her head bowed and eyes cast down, she made a poor figure upon the pedestal, and most people did not look twice after seeing her lame foot.
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Truly God exalts the humble and cast down the proud.
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When he came into his house and saw himself in so great poverty, he called the devils and gave himself to them; then came to him three devils which cast down Roba upon the soler and after took him by the neck, and it seemed that they would have estrangled him, in such wise that he unnethe might speak.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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Her shoulders slumped forward, some invisible burden pressing hard on her, and her eyes were cast down and away, as if inspecting the baseboards for dust.
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'For thee, oppressed king, I am cast down;/Myself could else outfrown false Fortune's frown.'
Shakespeare
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He was "snibbed," confined to his diocese, and "cast down, yea, lower than the dust," wrote Rothes to Lauderdale.
A Short History of Scotland
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Wanderer cast down the bow and turned with a cry to spring on him who had cut the cord, for his eye had caught the sheen of the outstretched spear, Kurri lifted the covering of the purple web which lay upon the bed and deftly cast it over the hero's head so that he was inmeshed.
The World's Desire
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The forecast down Cancun way is positively sizzling and we have hard liquor and a Jacuzzi in our room, so the outlook is sunny.
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She looked as if she was shrinking into herself, her eyes cast down at the floor.
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He walked up the stairs and found Rena sitting on his bed and her eyes were cast down.
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So the Jews first laughed at God's threats, confident that they should speedily return; then, when cast down from that confidence, they sank in inconsolable despondency. expected end -- literally, "end and expectation," that is, an end, and that such an end as you wish for.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Some distinguished geologist has discovered, or thinks he has, some new law of creation by which he can trace the underground currents of water; or some noble noble lord has "patronized" into notice some caprice of an aspiring engineer, and straight-way the kingdom is convulsed with contests to set up or cast down these idols.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
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At that moment triangular shadows will be cast down the 91 steps in a zigzag pattern.
Times, Sunday Times
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In contrast, the Catholic doctrine of suffering, like the Beatitudes, inverted the oppressive world of nature: the lowly were raised up and the mighty cast down.
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According to ABC managing director Mark Scott, the ABC had 47 million podcast and vodcast downloads last year.
ABC Had 47 Million Downloads Last Year | Lifehacker Australia
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The slaves rose and backed out of the chamber, their eyes cast down.
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He is not easily cast down.
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They cast down their weapons at last.
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The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression.
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I jerked up my chin to see my uncles had already cast down their shovels.
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Every twenty seconds their elongated selves were flung before him, their shadows cast down by the lighthouse beam.
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Having delivered this eulogism of the dead, the lady folded her hands placidly, and with eyes cast down, but attentive, settled herself to await developments.
The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play
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Women cast down, on whom life had left its mark, were to him sisters under the skin regardless of station.
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The enemy cast down their weapons.
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Then the boy and the girl would cast down and circle with the bottom couple.
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'broking' to speculating -- from that again to the old course -- alternately buoyed up or cast down, through trials and troubles, the bankrupt, at last, in his darkest hour, lands on that 'luck' which in America comes sooner or later to every one.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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He cast down monsters and destroyed Chaos warriors with a word.
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This seemeth evil, but let us not be cast down, or die redeless.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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He held the door for her and she went in with her eyes cast down so they seemed closed; with her long lashes right on her warm cheeks; with her shoulders rounded with tension and her two hands hard-holding her two wrists; with her little feet making little steps; and to the yawping gallery making catcalls and kissing noises,
Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
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Her stride was definite, every footfall decisive; her eyes were cast down, but he would have sworn she wasn't watching her steps.
SCANDAL'S BRIDE
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What about the shock in heaven when Lucifer, the light bearer they called the anointed cherub, led a revolt in heaven and a third of the angels, the bible says, were cast down.
