outcast

Example Sentences

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Thomas Harris grew up in the South as a bookish outcast, reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and Jonathan Swift.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

There was also the possibility of being a social outcast in an era of card-tapping.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

The Yautja are a ruthless culture whose warriors take pride in hunting alone, and Dek’s stubborn adherence to those rules, even as an outcast, is nearly his undoing.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2025

“As skateboarders we’ve kind of always been the underdogs, seen as the outcast or the rebels,” says Martinez during a recent video interview with the whole squad gathered.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025

“Being an outcast, not being able to participate when my good friends had become leaders, was depressing,” said Hermann Rosenau, whose father was Jewish but mother was not.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti