How to Use cast down in a Sentence
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And then, all of a sudden, all of the threads rip loose, and the net gets cast down to nothing.
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Michael Granberry,
Dallas News,
23 June 2023
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Their gazes are steely, determined, grim, sometimes cast down.
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The Indianapolis Star,
8 Nov. 2022
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The high-energy rays cast down during that time are akin to a laser pinpointing at the eye.
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Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2024
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This iteration of Rugrats takes the cast down to its pre-movies size.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 May 2021
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Her face looked drawn, her eyes cast down, and her two-year-old granddaughter, Josephine, clung tightly to her side.
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Stefania Conrieri,
Vanity Fair,
13 June 2026
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So, the question is, is the cast down to revisit their Gossip Girl days?
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Noelle Devoe,
Seventeen,
27 July 2016
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The beast has been killed, the brush has grown wild, and Elif strides out of the frame with her eyes cast down, carrying her Quran.
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Eren Orbey,
The New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2023
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Make good use of the constructive energies the sun and Saturn are casting down.
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USA TODAY,
25 Apr. 2023
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These were not mysterious events that were cast down upon us by a vengeful or indifferent god.
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Alex Shephard,
New Republic,
2 Oct. 2017
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And there, above them, is Leonardo’s image of Jesus—arms outstretched, eyes cast down—presiding over the scene.
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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The roof is bordered by flames sheathed in transparent glass and has a fire pit near a small lounge area, plus a triangular skylight casting down onto the ground floor.
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Benjy Egel,
sacbee,
14 June 2018
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Posner axes an act and boils the cast down to seven, a choice commented on by actors in one of many chatty digressions with the audience.
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Andrea Simakis,
cleveland.com,
13 Sep. 2019
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To sum it up, Zendaya looks like an angel cast down from heaven — perfect in a way that truly wasn't thought possible until this very moment.
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Nicola Dall'asen,
Allure,
20 Sep. 2020
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Hospital staff near the gurney could be seen casting down their eyesand quietly backing away to provide a modicum of privacy.
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Laura King,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Nov. 2023
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Start by tying on a buoyant imitation, like a Wulff or a Stimulator, and making a fairly short cast down and across.
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Dave Hurteau,
Field & Stream,
26 June 2020
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Engineers assess how much light is cast down the road, improving the driver's opportunity to see hazards and respond, and whether the light produced creates too much glare for an oncoming driver.
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Phoebe Wall Howard,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Apr. 2021
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Black grandparents who were part of the Great Migration brought their experience of Jim Crow with them, cautioning their grandkids to keep their eyes cast down.
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Kate Stone Lombardi,
Good Housekeeping,
9 June 2021
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In a prayer later called the Magnificat, Mary, the mother of Jesus, praises the glory and power of God who casts down the mighty and raises the lowly.
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Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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In one instance, for example, Anthony recruited actors to try their hands at rat fishing, attaching bait to the end of a fishing line and casting down alleyways, hoping to reel in a rodent or two.
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Chris Kaltenbach,
baltimoresun.com,
13 Sep. 2017
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Here the script has been honed nicely, and Juror #2 also has been exceptionally well cast down to the smallest roles (Geoff Miclat is the casting director).
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2024
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His company established the template of the editor as a heroic, godlike figure casting down commandments from a print Mount Olympus, a status that continued after Nast’s death through the twentieth century.
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Kyle Chayka,
The New Republic,
21 Oct. 2019
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