How to Use typecast in a Sentence

typecast

verb

• Her television work typecast her as a helpless victim.
• Brosnan doesn't want his painting to be typecast, and so his art is all over the place.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 16 May 2018
• Time will tell if Sweeney is typecast into these for much longer.
  — Kara Kennedy, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• The worst thing for an actor in Hollywood is to be typecast.
  — Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 17 June 2017
• Even Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer was among those who typecast Keenum as a just-in-case second-stringer.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2018
• But Zima was typecast as a girly drink, with all the virility of a white wine cooler.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• But in all that success the Kia brand has become a bit shopworn, typecast as down-market and generic.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• They’re often typecast as transplants who still root for old hometown teams.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 9 June 2023
• The urge to label, designate or typecast players has deep roots.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The four-time Grammy winner won’t be typecast so easily.
  — Matt Goulet, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2017
• But Sheehan has been typecast, with his tacit approval.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Still, many aren’t comfortable and fear being typecast.
  — Bryan Stallings, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
• McGowan was swiftly typecast as an edgy ingénue, with a public image that was part Goth and part Jazz Age flapper.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2017
• True, he was typecast ― as a driver ― but Bernie Martin clearly left his mark on the creative community.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• His work was groundbreaking in an era when Black actors were typecast into playing butlers, porters or pimps.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2023
• Perhaps the tirade was the motive for underlings to typecast her as some sort of mole for the dwindling ranks of the president’s Republican enemies.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 11 May 2018
• John is still into Bulgaria and piano-playing, has survived a nasty fall from a horse, and resents having been typecast as a Tory toff.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• Hollander, who is straight and, at fifty-six, a first-time dad, dismissed the idea that he is typecast as malicious gay men who betray their female confidantes.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• But despite her accomplishments, men in the film and television industries still tried to typecast her.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2020
• With Warren, Trump is trying to typecast a potential 2020 rival.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
• Behind Their Films If the performance typecast him as a roguish megalomaniac, there was still no shortage of roles for Boothe.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 15 May 2017
• Brands will soon be routinely using face-scanning software to typecast customers and cross-promote products that may fit their niche.
  — Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
• Though often typecast as a mere Thanksgiving pie ingredient, pecans are more than deserving of a spot in your pantry (or freezer) all year long.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
• The characters couldn’t be more different, but that’s nothing new for Caplan, who has avoided being typecast.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 24 May 2023
• Then there was David Geffen, who had his own record company, so that was basically typecasting.
  — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• In this business, there is always typecasting, and once The Wire became a cult sensation, Reddick was never going to lack for work in this particular area.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
• Green, often typecast as witches and femmes fatales, here takes on a too-rare leading role devoid of any such fantastical trappings and emerges with one of the strongest performances of her career.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• But those effects evaporated when her team turned their lens to mutts with retriever ancestry, who are harder to typecast by appearance alone.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• Van Fleet allegedly grew bitter in her older years, grumbling that she had been typecast and was never given a true chance to shine, but this glittering collection of films proves otherwise.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• Hassan said that Middle Eastern actors were in the past often typecast to play stereotypical characters in Hollywood productions, but now there is a chance to change that.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024