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Example sentences for "being cast"

  • Why, being cast away on a desert island is lots of fun, I think.

  • But the fact remained that being cast away on one island was just about the same as being cast away on another.

  • Happening to be in the parish of Fleet, near Portland Race, in Dorsetshire, he happened to hear in the evening of a ship in imminent danger of being cast away, she having been driven on some shoals.

  • They still continued in the same story of being cast away, but, added to it, that he had fallen off the rigging, and wounded his arm in that manner.

  • Being cast away on the Pacific was productive of additional adventures and surprises.

  • Just think of being cast away on a lonely island like Robinson Crusoe!

  • I can hardly believe your story about being cast away on an island in the Pacific," said Larry.

  • In this consists his true divinity, for to the Deity nothing in the universe can be unacceptable or worthy of being cast off.

  • True happiness is his who can cast off that thirst which is incapable of being cast off by the misguided, which does not decay with decrepitude, and which is regarded as a fatal disease.

  • These are the essential parts of this machine; they are made of iron, and the smooth ones are case-hardened, or chilled, by being cast in iron moulds.

  • Both are made of white cast iron, chilled or case-hardened by being cast in iron moulds instead of sand; and they last a month, at least, when of good quality.

  • They are next passed through chilled rolls or cast-iron cylinders, rendered very hard by being cast in thick iron moulds, as has been long practised by the Scotch founders in casting bushes for cart-wheels.

  • The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.

  • Capable of being cast off in the form of exuvi\'91.

  • The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being cast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being agreeable; being also; being attacked; being bent; being capable; being come; being covered; being discovered; being easily; being found; being generally; being given; being good; being heated; being invisible; being late; being minded; being more; being now; being poor; being present; being ready; being reconciled; being regarded; being separated; made clothing