Examples of recast in a Sentence
The director decided to recast the movie with unknowns.
When she quit the movie, I was recast in the leading role.
The director recast some of the actors in the play.
You should recast the last sentence in your essay to make it clearer.
He recast his political image to fit the times.
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Their images helped recast the factory not as a relic, but as a monumental work of beauty.
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Jeff Chu,
Travel + Leisure,
6 July 2026
Rubbed out by the day’s events, the kolams—an art form that sustains the diurnal rhythm of the universe—are faithfully recast the next morning.
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Chandrahas Choudhury,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 July 2026
Three extraordinary new books, published this year, shed light on the brilliance and complexity of Morrison’s life and work, and place her as an American eminence, a visionary who saw fiction as a means through which to recast her country’s story.
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Leigh Haber,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
In more recent years, the culture wars waged by India’s ruling Hindu nationalists have complicated the image of Tipu and his father, who some now have recast as bloodthirsty Muslim warlords rather than icons of national resistance.
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Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
2 July 2026
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Jeff Chu,
Travel + Leisure,
6 July 2026
Rubbed out by the day’s events, the kolams—an art form that sustains the diurnal rhythm of the universe—are faithfully recast the next morning.
—
Chandrahas Choudhury,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 July 2026
Three extraordinary new books, published this year, shed light on the brilliance and complexity of Morrison’s life and work, and place her as an American eminence, a visionary who saw fiction as a means through which to recast her country’s story.
—
Leigh Haber,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
In more recent years, the culture wars waged by India’s ruling Hindu nationalists have complicated the image of Tipu and his father, who some now have recast as bloodthirsty Muslim warlords rather than icons of national resistance.
—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
2 July 2026
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“Recast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recast. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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recast
verb
re·cast
(ˈ)rē-ˈkast 
recast; recasting
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