outcasts

Example Sentences

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With hair down near their eyes, they seemed like dangerous high-school outcasts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” still connects with so many people because it empowers its outcasts and misfits.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

It makes more sense that the feeling of family promised by rock touring life would appeal to Charlie Brown; it often calls to creative dreamers and outcasts with a subconscious need to belong.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

"A single incident alters our whole life. We are treated like outcasts by society and face so many difficulties. Shouldn't the government do more to prevent more people from suffering the same fate as us?"

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

“If even outcasts and downtrodden folk like yourselves can’t muster a bit of compassion for others,” she said, “then there’s no hope for this world.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs