How to Use cast about in a Sentence

cast about

verb
  • Pasricha cast about for a way to move forward from this bleak time.
    — Jennifer King Lindley, Health.com, 25 June 2020
  • Some even cast about for their next move, eager to keep the good times going.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • The brain casts about for sense or sequence to tether itself to.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Pyles is looking to cast about 30 roles as well as extras for the film.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • But then Gunn told her and the rest of the cast about his plan for the opening credits.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The kid doesn’t have his own mask or anything but doubts are rapidly cast about his true parentage.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Deadline spoke with the cast about some of the biggest moments from the episode to get their takes.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Some regaled the cast about their favorite scenes or called them by their characters’ names.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • Rosalind's been so amazing in chatting back and forth with the cast about her book and its core message.
    — Evan Real, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
  • That meant that the pages themselves would be cast about quite a bit during transit to and from these varied trades.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • His eyes cast about the roaring scene before him before landing on the banner.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Matt is just as surprised as the rest of his Manifest cast about the show coming back to life.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The hard-line leader has cast about for a strategy to end the wave of protests, with little success.
    — Jim Heintz, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • And some cast about for alternatives to lead the party into the future.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 20 July 2024
  • Many people are wildly casting about, not just for solutions, but for someone to take the blame.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The London mayor is not alone in casting about for ways to solve his city’s housing shortage.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
  • That has left Republicans casting about for ways to offset those costs.
    — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In the intervening decade, the network has cast about for its standard-bearer.
    — Sarah Ellison, Washington Post, 22 June 2019
  • With no clear path to ending the shutdown, the White House is casting about for a way forward.
    — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
  • Host Egypt Sherrod reminisces with the cast about the show’s eight seasons.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 25 July 2021
  • Unable to cope with that, British voters are casting about blaming the politicians.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Those who came to Haley’s events are still casting about for alternatives.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Major tech companies have been casting about for a few years to figure out what comes next after the laptop.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Women, who also sided with Warnock last month, have cast about 56% of the ballots.
    — Jonathan Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Video posted by the fire department showed chairs and other furniture cast about outside the home.
    — Adam Elmahrek, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
  • An engineer named Eiji Nakatsu cast about for a way to make the trains quiet.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The former Cleveland Browns were still casting about for an identity in their new city.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • On a fly rod at anything but medium-short distances, a Pistol Pete casts about as well as a wet cat.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Correspondent Seth Doane talks with the show's creators and cast about what makes their program unique.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • As Amazon casts about for a winning format, employees say the signs of trouble are stacking up.
    — Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023

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