castaway
Example Sentences
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Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” leaves Heathcliff’s racial identity ambiguous, with characters referring to him as a “gipsy brat,” “lascar” and “Spanish castaway” at different points throughout the novel.
From Los Angeles Times
Defoe recounts the castaway’s thoughts, dreams, fears and disappointments, as well as his meeting with the Caribbean native man he calls Friday.
“He’s never given up, he’s continued to fight on even though he’s been viewed as a castaway. I’m really happy for him and how he’s handled everything. Now he’s starting in a Super Bowl. LFG!!!”
From Los Angeles Times
The two other prominent theories are that Earhart crash-landed on or near the then-Japanese Marshall Islands, or that she made it to Nikumaroro island near Kiribati and died a castaway there.
From BBC
The Times was soon writing about a new breed of homeless in L.A.: economic castaways who had lost jobs in the recession.
From Los Angeles Times
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