How to Use central casting in a Sentence

central casting

noun

• The grill looked like a saloon straight out of central casting.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• Even his name seemed to fit, like central casting’s idea of what an oilman should be named.
  — Cliff Brunt, The Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• Rees-Jones could be from central casting for the movie Giant, Perot said.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
• The rental is straight out of real estate central casting.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022
• Their pitch is polished, their look and demeanor straight out of central casting.
  — Randall Lane, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• And now, here is this man who’s straight out of central casting with his suspenders stretched over his belly and plaid shirt in the middle of summer.
  — Claudia Hinz, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2022
• The call went out to central casting a week ago, when extras were needed to keep the production going.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Jan. 2022
• Murray was part of Riverdale’s central cast until Josie went on tour in season three, exiting the show, more or less, for good.
  — Kadeen Griffiths, Marie Claire, 5 Feb. 2020
• Rhodes was an easy sell for right-wing audiences - a compelling speaker with a look straight out of central casting.
  — Hannah Allam, Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
• As for the surrounding environs, well—it’s a maritime-themed place straight out of central casting.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 16 July 2021
• The gym-fit Paulides, who moved from California to Colorado in part for the skiing, is right out of central casting for a detective film.
  — Jon Billman, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2017
• With the even demeanor of a judge and hair already silver, Cornyn looked and sounded like a senator from central casting, as out-of-state news media loved to say.
  — Dallas News, 27 June 2022
• Dark Phoenix starts with a glimmer of hope that this central cast could go somewhere interesting if given one more shot.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 7 June 2019
• All of which is a lark because Odom fits central casting’s All-America teenager.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
• If only because Pat Kelsey is straight outta central casting to be the Musketeers next coach.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 Mar. 2021
• Hay is right out of central casting for the role of Hollywood naturalist.
  — Brett McNish, Smithsonian, 15 Feb. 2018
• The senior staff appear to be straight out of central casting, Gallic division.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• With his Jersey accent, Rosa might have come from central casting for an old black-and-white Hollywood movie to head up a shadowy bureau.
  — CNN, 10 May 2021
• General Maslin was, to look at him, every bit the Russian general, as if pulled from central casting.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
• McManamy, too, was a character out of heli-ski guide central casting.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2021
• The search produced Jeff Banister, straight out of central casting, talking with Texas grit and offering up blood-and-guts analogies.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• While Asia was on holiday, western media called central casting for the China bears.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• The new episodes dispense with the Greek chorus of Monterey citizens discussing the women and also gives far more screen time to Bonnie, the only woman of color in the central cast.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 June 2019
• That the storyline is familiar, and the characters straight out of central casting, does not detract from the novel’s appeal.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• The tall, curly-haired brunette stands out; central casting circa 1935 would have hired her to play the role of feisty female archaeologist in some exotic locale.
  — Jude Isabella, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
• Is something shifting in the zeitgeist that lives people of color women, anybody from not from central casting, more likely to succeed now?
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Kaori is an entrepreneurial psychic, and Chet a bully out of central casting whose cruel act leads to Virgil’s predicament and his guinea pig’s too.
  — Susan Faust, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
• Hapless rebels which seem out of central casting for a dark military comedy like Tropic Thunder.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2011
• But things go awry with the introduction of their prime suspect, Albert Sparma (Leto), an abundantly creepy, greasy-haired loner who feels out of serial-killer central casting.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• These were Fox News viewers and Trump supporters straight out of conservative-politics central casting, almost to the point of comedy.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 20 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024