"cast" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Peter gave the signal, and the carrion was cast overboard.
- A glass bottle (presumably empty) is cast overboard and its fall watched.
- But you must swear to me that it's not your own self you intend to cast overboard.
- More than a word, perhaps: a great social engine: an anchor which, cast carelessly overboard, sinks deep and fast into the very bottom.
- The body of the horse was cast overboard by the crew into the Atlantic Ocean.
- We've searched every place on the ship and not found it, so it has to have been cast overboard - that's the only explanation!
- Poor, unlucky Jonah cast overboard, head down among the seaweed and the fishes.
- They cut away the starboard anchor and cast overboard the guns mounted on her port side.
- Supplies of food and water ran short, and the cavalry horses were cast overboard into the sea.
- The grappling hooks were cast overboard before they caught.
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