How to Use outcast in a Sentence

outcast

1 of 2 noun
  • She felt like a social outcast.
  • The outcast must guess their fate.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • That song spoke to me so much as someone who felt like an outcast.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 8 July 2022
  • The drag queens, the outcasts, the eccentrics were all there.
    — Alyssa Hardy, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2023
  • This film is truly the stuff of teen-outcast nightmares.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Kylee feels connected to the lyrics since she's felt like an outcast more than once.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Clearly, people feel like outcasts even if the world doesn’t see them that way.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the outcast lovers feast on human body parts, a butchery the film does not shy away from.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Zim is the loner, the social outcast.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This attention at long last is sweet revenge for so many years as an outcast.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Because nobody wants to be alone by themselves and an outcast.
    — Malina Saval, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • What was the most rewarding part about being an outcast?
    — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The same bad behaviors will continue, and you’ll be made to feel like an outcast.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Borisy helped Nikolic launch a fund, and used his own high-profile venture firm to vouch for the outcast.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 11 Mar. 2026
  • This is true right down to our heroine’s friendship with two fellow outcasts who steal every scene.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The charge, which the father says was bogus, made his son an outcast who no longer had gang protection.
    — Danny Robbins, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Linklater is drawn to outcasts, to ramblers, to those looking to expand their minds in more ways than one.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 4 Apr. 2023
  • That outcast ethos runs through the lyrics, music, and attitude of bands from the early-aughts era.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But Biden wasn’t there to reinforce bin Salman’s outcast state.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Its author, Amerie, has to grapple with the messy fallouts as a total outcast.
    — William Earl, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In the last, Adrien, to that point a weirdo outcast, is invited in on the camaraderie.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • With thick dark hair and a creased smile, Lichtenstein was seen by some of his peers as an outcast with a mischievous bent.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Eventually, all but Rice and one other outcast found their way back.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Two outcasts, a preacher’s daughter and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, hold the key to uncovering the truth.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Sharing the same gray pallor to their skin, the pair take comfort in one another as fellow outcasts.
    — Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • Once released, the outcasts turn on Judi, attacking and killing her.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Three prostitutes live in the wasteland by the sea, where a village of outcasts has been established.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Some of these mistruths portrayed the killers as outcasts and, crucially, victims.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The disorienting power of adolescent life didn’t push you alone to feel like an outcast.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • If TikTok is a high school, Brooklynne Webb has been an outcast for the last year.
    — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2021

outcast

2 of 2 adjective
  • His character leads outcast samurai seeking to avenge their master's killing.
    — ABC News, 29 June 2026
  • The show paints Benjamin as an outcast battling addiction.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • John Matuszak played the outcast family member known as Sloth.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe there’s some ancient outcast text that Wednesday can consult to undo everything and bring her friend back.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Frey was largely outcast from literary fame for lying about parts of his drug addiction, criminal history and time in rehab.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The only real threat is a whistleblower, like an outcast kid overhearing the whole criminal scheme from the floor below his mother’s office.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, a group of outcast kids must survive the taunting sewer-dwelling clown, who forces them to confront their deepest fears.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
  • Just when things go south, Fester’s powers cause a blackout, triggering an outcast uprising that allows Wednesday and her uncle to flee.
    — Jane Lacroix, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Agnes’ outcast ability is turning invisible.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As part of the program, the Willow Hill administrators faked the deaths of outcast patients and subjected them to secret tests in the basement of the facility.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Star Jon Heder launched into movie stardom with his portrayal of the title character, a dead-eyed, socially awkward outcast teen struggling with bullies at school and his eccentric family.
    — Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
  • Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver, an outcast Oxford student who befriends uber-rich classmate Felix (Jacob Elordi).
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
  • Our protagonist, Angela, is constantly outcast in friendships on account of her identity, until a new girl named Mary Hastings comes along and prefers her company to the other girls.
    — Glory Edim august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Frustrated with having to sit through an annual Thanksgiving show at school the day before the holiday, the kids decide to put on a musical based on Tina’s erotic holiday fiction about an outcast turkey.
    — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2023
  • With Fire and Ash, Cameron retreads a lot of the same ground, from the fraught father-son relationship between Quaritch and Spider to the plight of poor Payakan, still the outcast space whale.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Up until recently, he’s been mostly outcast from the mainstream rap world, only to appear in the occasional TMZ headline for doing something ridiculous and or ethically questionable.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Another of the boys, Ben (Everett Blunck), struggles between his desire to help the outcast camper and his worries about incurring the wrath of the larger group, especially the ringleader Jake (Kayo Martin).
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Having vanquished the murderous alliance of her love interest Tyler (Hunter Doohan) and teacher Marilyn Thornhill (Christina Ricci), who had been conspiring against the school’s outcast denizens, she’s hailed as a hero.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • New England circa the 17th century is the setting for this enigmatic tale of an outcast Puritan family haunted by superstition, paranoia, disappearances, and the growing fear that something in the deep, dark woods surrounding their homestead is attacking their rigid faith.
    — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • With his semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous, Oscar-winning writer-director Cameron Crowe tapped into his past as an outcast high schooler turned unlikely Rolling Stone reporter.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • When Wednesday later sneaks into Willow Hill to get her Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) out of the psychiatric hospital as well as uncover the outcast experiments happening in the basement, things go south when a monster breaks free.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Saltburn explores obsession and class divisions in mid-2000s Britain, following outcast Oxford student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) and his intense connection with Felix (Jacob Elordi), a popular student who comes from enormous wealth.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Denise Richards plays wealthy high schooler Kelly Van Ryan, who accuses her guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon), of raping her; her case is then reinforced when outcast Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell) comes forward with her own allegation against Sam.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Apr. 2026

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