castaway

[ US /ˈkæstəˌweɪ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɑːstəwˌe‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who is rejected (from society or home)
  2. a shipwrecked person
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How To Use castaway In A Sentence

  • For his castaway book he picks a dictionary of flora and fauna.
  • Among them is Riddick, a convicted criminal whom the other castaways put in chains out of fear for what he might do.
  • Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island.
  • Docile as a bellwether sheep, he let himself be led away, and the rest of the castaways crowded close behind him.
  • Currently healing from a blow to the face, Frank is now a captive of a new group of castaways because he couldn't answer one simple question: What ... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Bonus Comics from August 2008, Part Two
  • He was divided between pleasure at his success, and sorrow that the castaways were as yet unrelieved, for he could not doubt that the gunboat was the same that had been dispatched from Brisbane to their assistance. Round the World in Seven Days
  • Alvin Sharpes had a deep and endless collection and I began to draw from his castaways.
  • After surviving their first two years on an uncharted Pacific island, our seven stranded castaways continue to ponder and pine after the day they'll be rescued from their tropic island nest.
  • We lived in a castaway world of the senses, where skin was burned and sun tan oils perfumed us as we slept on sandy sheets.
  • Day and night are compressed into an eight hour day, so you see everything our castaway hero can get up to.
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