How To Use Cast-off In A Sentence
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The Australian lamb industry was historically supplied by the cast-offs of the wool industry.
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Please consider helping the wonderful people who rescue, adopt, shelter, re-home, and euthanize your local cast-off animals.
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Tomorrow Hari would go to Ma Popits first thing and see what cast-off clothing she could buy for young Will.
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He drives off, leaving his bags of rubbish, old fridges and washing machines, mattresses, paint tins and a choice of cast-offs behind.
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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
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He says that he wore ‘as badges of courage’ the barbs of those who caught him wearing a classmate's cast-off clothes.
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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.
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For some people, a sense of shame clings to the buying of cast-offs.
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It was one of Harriet's cast-offs, hardly worn since it hadn't suited her fair colouring.
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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
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Then a young girl, dressed in the flashy cast-offs of the second - hand, observes her.
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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.
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Even dressed in cast-off men's clothes and struggling against the rigors of 19th century rural life, she looks as if she had stepped from the pages of a glossy magazine, her eyebrows and cuticles painstakingly attended to.
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One such offer was from a theme park in Dogpatch, Arkansas, which is devoted to cast-off metal monuments.
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He wore a shabby pair of green slacks made from synthetic fibre and flared from the knee down, a green t-shirt and a pair of cast-off track shoes from a former client.
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When the likes of Waterford Port were thriving, most Irish fishermen were going around in cast-off boats from other countries.
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I feel like something flung together at the last minute, something made out of jumble sale cast-offs and things won at fairgrounds.
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Furniture workshops and electrical testers will work to put the cast-offs back into the community and given to disadvantaged families.
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Comprised initially of mostly illiterate former slaves, they overcame their shortcomings and the army's initial tendency to supply them with cast-off equipment.
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It doesn’t change the underlying problem, and it’s likely to leave many of the women worse off — instead of the women being in a recognized relationship with rights to support, men with polygynist tendencies in our society leave a trail of mistresses, single mothers, and cast-off first wives.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Surplus of Males and Runaway (with the Bride-Price) Brides:
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Some have labeled this the ‘hand-me-down’ phenomenon, as many of the seniors moving online are recipients of cast-off hardware from their adult children.
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Their clothes are a hybrid of western department store cast-offs and items they've woven themselves.
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They were made in southern Africa from recycled oil drums, unwanted cars and cast-offs from the metal industries, making them extremely environmentally friendly.
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He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mothers heels, equipped in a pair of his fathers cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather.
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According to tradition, Mattia entered the convent chapel, cut off her hair, and donned a cast-off habit.
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In order to watch M. de Coralth, he had again arrayed himself in his cast-off clothes, and with his blouse and his worn-out shoes, his "knockers" and his glazed cap, he looked the vagabond to perfection.
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
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In the work made of the Mollusk's cast-off clothing, I find encrusted the spindle shell of the Clausilium, the key shell of the pupa, the spiral of the smaller Helix, the yawning volute of the Vitrina, or glass snail, the turret shell of the Bulimus
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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Finding one of these cast-offs is like finding my grandmother's favourite sweater.
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He adds that he would kiss with rage and transport whatever had come in close contact with the woman he adored, and on one occasion eagerly pressed his lips to her cast-off underlinen, _vela secretiora penetralium_.
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All our furniture was second-hand: cast-offs and goodwill presents from our friends in Chicago.
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Recycling for profit is one thing, but when no money changes hands, other people's cast-offs are less desirable.
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If you've never seen their stage show, you can still get an eyeful from this album's black-and-white liner photos, which show the duo swooning or flopped like cast-off goth toys.
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He must have found fresh water; he has a source of food he can tap into… probably including cast-off bones, rubbish discarded by the fast food outlet and restaurant the other side of Marina Glen, and any other scraps he can lay his teeth into.
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I would never have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes, but many women seem perfectly happy to buy other people's cast-off mascara.
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Dressed usually in her mistress's cast-offs from yesteryears of fashion, she nevertheless lent a personal touch to each garment.
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Then she sees Rainbow's cast-off shirt at the foot of the stairs, tangled in a heap with Anya's jeans.
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wearing someone's cast-off clothes
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I hope also to show that perennial philosophy is not an historical relic, a cast-off from an alien time, fit only for the cramped exegesis of modern historians of ideas.
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The students do their design work at the college in a large open room crammed with drafting desks, layout tables, computer workstations, and, usually, an eclectic array of cast-off couches and easy chairs.
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When that job was done, they packed it up in boxes and used cast-off pages from my comic as packing material.
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They wear a mixture of swathed and ragged traditional togas and cast-off Oxfam rags.
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We've lived together for five years so we've long graduated beyond using other people's cast-off china and bedding.
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Alexandra looked plump and awkward in her cast-off clothing.
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Mosaics can be made from any of a number of materials, from the traditional tessera and glass, to mundane materials such as stones and beads, to the unexpected bottle caps, nuts and bolts, and industrial cast-offs.
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It was one of Harriet's cast-offs, hardly worn since it hadn't suited her fair colouring.
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Thank goodness I was an ugly kid, not very alluring in my cast-off, woolly mammoth all-in-one.
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The photos are cast-offs from photo booths around Paris.
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How, I wonder, through the immemorial ages, and why, did this particular bird develop its strange determination always, where possible, to use a snake's cast-off skin in building its nest?
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James:I give this cast-off version of the magazine is a literary journal. James:I could not even when coolies are not eligible.
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Smith added that the shop received between 20 and 30 bags of cast-offs and unwanted belongings a day.
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The house in question is made almost exclusively out of cast-off materials, most of which would have probably spent the rest of their days in scrap yards or in dumps.
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Our adventurer expected to see in Mr Jacobs a withered and filthy old being, similar in external appearance to those of his race who then perambulated the metropolis as dealers in cast-off clothing.
Ralph Rashleigh
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I had to wear all my brother's highly unfashionable cast-off clothes and the bathroom always stunk of Guinness.
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His indifference to cars was also reflected in the fact that as a young actor trying to make his way in London he was forced to make do with whatever was available - invariably the cast-offs of other actors.
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She used to wear her sister's cast-offs.
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That, plus the fact that the dining area is furnished with cast-off tables and chairs and mismatched china and cutlery, might make food seem like an afterthought.
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Payment was commonly in cast-off clothes, food scraps, alcohol or opium dregs.
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A Blackpool pensioner famed for his love of cast-offs has hit back at council claims he is using a private plot of land as a dumping ground for his ‘collection’.
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They wear a mixture of swathed and swagged traditional togas and cast-off Oxfam rags.
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Luckily, I wasn't pummelled to death with cast-off newsroom typewriters, and was even allowed to continue working.
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He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with, one hand, as
Elson Grammar School Literature v4
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It's somewhat disheartening that the FemBots' cast-offs earn them more money than their actual records, but MacKinnon and Poirier don't seem to mind, because they know they've just made one beaut of an album.
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It is worth remembering that the people who fought for liberation in the decades after the Second World War wanted what the developed world had, not shoddy cast-offs.
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Christian faith may teach us, that the state of the soul is vastly more important than the disposal made of the material form, and that he who has Christian faith will think only of the soul of his departed friend; that, in his view, the body will be only the deserted cell, the cast-off fetter, the forgotten aurelia of the released, the exultant spirit.
The blessed dead waiting for us : a sermon preached in St. James' Church, Marietta, Georgia, on the Festival of All Saints, November 1st, 1863,
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It was a miracle - if not of fishes and loaves, then of cast-offs and left-overs.
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Country football is littered with the cast-offs from the elite leagues.
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It had been breathing, but body was the right word just the same; it had only been a worthless thing, like a cast-off towsack which some idiot had stuffed full of weeds or cornshucks.
The Drawing of the Three
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When times are hard or not so, rummaging through other people's (and I have to admit sometimes dead people's) cast-offs and unwanted novelty kitchen items is a fine way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
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We do not believe supporters want to see the cast-offs from larger clubs playing for their own clubs.
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She cut her hair short and bleached it blond, flaunted cast-off clothes and vivid red lipstick, shaved her eyebrows and replaced them with gold streaks.
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So those earliest families that settled used scrap wood, often cast-offs from construction, to build little shacks.
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Exuviation: the act of molting: the cast-off skin or exuvium.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Alexandra looked plump and awkward in her cast-off clothing.
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Of course, makeshift shelters have been fashioned from transport-industry cast-offs for decades, with railway carriages used as extra bedrooms and old vans used as chicken coops.
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About a third of the paintings in the collection are student donations or Ruskin cast-offs and have a distinctly youthful and accessible appeal that helps many of them to find a home each year.
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Anton stood in the coalyard of Lord Sisk's home, sadly surveying the wreckage of the Professor's balloon, stretched out on the cobblestones like the cast-off skin of some giant red snake.
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