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(intr, adverb) to make a mental or visual searchto cast about for an idea for a book

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How to use cast about in a sentence

Obviously, not all the original cast can come back or even have the desire.
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As the months passed and she began to cast the film, I became increasingly excited.
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If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
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It cast this pall over the movie, which was one of my favorites of last year.
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Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.
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They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
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The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.
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Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.
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Mrs. Newbolt was looking away toward the hills, a dreamy cast in her placid face.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
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cast about

Also, cast around. Seek, make a search, as in We cast about for the necessary tools, but couldn't find them in the garage. [Late 1600s]

Devise means, contrive, as in They cast about for new ways to increase revenue. This usage was first recorded in 1867.

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