How to Use cast down in a Sentence

cast down

adjective
  • It’s made from all the judgment that was cast down on us.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2021
  • So, the question is, is the cast down to revisit their Gossip Girl days?
    Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 27 July 2016
  • This iteration of Rugrats takes the cast down to its pre-movies size.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 May 2021
  • 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.
    Benjy Egel, sacbee, 14 June 2018
  • 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.
    Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • 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.
    Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Start by tying on a buoyant imitation, like a Wulff or a Stimulator, and making a fairly short cast down and across.
    Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 26 June 2020
  • 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.
    Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2021
  • These were not mysterious events that were cast down upon us by a vengeful or indifferent god.
    Alex Shephard, New Republic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • 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.
    Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • 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.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2021
  • 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.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019

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