cast out

verb

cast out; casting out; casts out

transitive verb

: to drive out : expel

Examples of cast out in a Sentence

cast them out of the tribe for violating sacred traditions
Recent Examples on the Web By 1962, Debord had decreed the making of art a commercial enterprise and thus outside the remit of the Situationist International, and Jorn and De Jong were cast out from the group. News Desk, Artforum, 1 July 2024 The Whites had departed, after a lengthy reckoning that left them feeling as if they’d already been cast out. Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024 Males cast out of the herd by the dominant male migrated elsewhere, started their own herds and took over new territory. Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024 Then, during World War II and amid the hysterical anticommunism of the early Cold War, Foreign Affairs joined the rest of the white American establishment in casting out Du Bois; partly as a result, his contributions to the field have received little attention from scholars in recent decades. Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for cast out 

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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cast out was in the 14th century

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“Cast out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cast%20out. Accessed 16 Jul. 2024.

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