ADJECTIVE
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thrown away
salvaged some thrown-away furniture
wearing someone's cast-off clothes
throwaway children living on the streets
How To Use cast-off In A Sentence
- The Australian lamb industry was historically supplied by the cast-offs of the wool industry.
- Please consider helping the wonderful people who rescue, adopt, shelter, re-home, and euthanize your local cast-off animals. 250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You
- Tomorrow Hari would go to Ma Popits first thing and see what cast-off clothing she could buy for young Will.
- He drives off, leaving his bags of rubbish, old fridges and washing machines, mattresses, paint tins and a choice of cast-offs behind.
- He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. The Short-story
- He says that he wore ‘as badges of courage’ the barbs of those who caught him wearing a classmate's cast-off clothes.
- At once monumental and fragile, it brought to mind the jury-rigged shacks constructed from cast-off materials found in every township or slum area.
- For some people, a sense of shame clings to the buying of cast-offs.
- It was one of Harriet's cast-offs, hardly worn since it hadn't suited her fair colouring.
- Arriving early one Saturday morning, we rummaged through the racks of cast-offs and almost immediately found a smart navy pinstripe; single-breasted, it had navy lining and flashes of red silk inside the pockets. Suits you, young sirs