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
"I see," Songmi says, her eyes cast down.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2023
Instead of clothes, she was wrapped in a towel, eyes cast down in a vacant stare, a photo taken during the visit shows.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2021
They cried unto the Lord forever, and lifted up their eyes forever, they were cast down forever, and He lifted them up forever.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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