cast aside
Example Sentences
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“You take what the world cast aside and breathe spirit into it, insisting that the overlooked can speak, that the discarded can testify, that the everyday can dream.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
It will fall to other parents to say that those who have cast aside the question of children’s well-being speak neither for our nation’s traditions nor for children themselves.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026
More than 50 different songs appear, sometimes impatiently cast aside by Mr. Luhrmann so he can jiggle and rotate his kaleidoscope again.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
He said the judges in Chicago had no legal or factual basis to block the deployment, and he urged the court to cast aside their rulings.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
Dotted across the hillside were the remains of his digging efforts: stones and dirt cast aside in sloppy heaps.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
