cast down
Example Sentences
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Because of budget trims, you were tasked with having to slim the cast down and scale back screen time for some veteran cast members.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
If these questions give off a strong smell of the seminar room, do not be cast down: There is plenty of fun, and truly adorable stuff, to be consumed.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024
One more day to cast down the mighty, lift up the lowly and send the rich away.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2023
"I see," Songmi says, her eyes cast down.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2023
The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.'
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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