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How to use castaway in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective, noun

Castaway means cast adrift or ashore; marooned. Example: “After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.”

Examples of castaway by meaning

adjectiveCast adrift or ashore; marooned.

  • After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.

adjectiveShipwrecked.

  • The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

nounA shipwrecked sailor.

  • Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.

nounA discarded person or thing.

  • This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.

nounAn outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

  • These homeless people are society's castaways.

More sentences with castaway

  • The castaways were bereft of hope.From the entry bereave
  • Could that listless-haired, torn-jeansed, slouching castaway among those shining angel-girls really be me?2014, Anneli Rufus, “Introduction”, in Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, page 10. From the entry jeansed
  • The smoky deluminated lounge was a sunken scatter of driftwood booths and castaway tables.1998, Writers Forum - Issues 24-26, page 52. From the entry deluminate
  • The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry booze
  • On Thursday morning, the castaways were taken to Makung, the capital of Penghu, and placed under the care of the archipelago’s mandarin.2019 September 6, Stuart Heaver, “When maritime disaster all but wiped out Hong Kong’s cricket team – the sinking of the SS Bokhara in…. From the entry Makung
  • A man not undistantly related to me by marriage confessed the other day that he was fondest of stories telling of castaways on desert islands.1967, The Little Review, volume 1, page 43. From the entry undistantly

Meaning of castaway

  1. adjective Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
  2. adjective Shipwrecked.
  3. adjective Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

Full definition of castaway

Questions about castaway in a sentence

How do you use castaway in a sentence?
Castaway is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.”
What is a short sentence with castaway?
“The castaways were bereft of hope.”
What does castaway mean?
Castaway means cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

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