How to Use cast about/around for in a Sentence

cast about/around for

phrasal verb
Definition of cast about/around fornext
  • Some even cast about for their next move, eager to keep the good times going.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • Pasricha cast about for a way to move forward from this bleak time.
    — Jennifer King Lindley, Health.com, 25 June 2020
  • Since leaving the European Union 18 months ago, Britain has cast about for a place in the world.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2021
  • To make its legal case and advance its broader cause, the ACLU cast about for a suitable defendant.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The Rangers have cast about for left-handed hitting leadoff options against right-handed starters since moving Miller out of the spot.
    — Dallas News, 4 May 2022
  • Southwest Airlines, continuing to cast about for pandemic passengers, is adding flights to two more vacation spots in May.
    — Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2021
  • So ended a four-day search involving a slew of law enforcement agencies that used airplanes, helicopters and snowmobiles to cast about for Pushard, 51, and her longtime friend Angela Bussell, 50.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • That is not to diminish their moments of power; the sentences accrue a confidence and clarity by virtue of never having to cast around for what else these characters or their stories might contain.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
  • Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and Johansen and many other Oakland fans who’d wanted to strongly express their disapproval over the Astros cheating scandal had to cast about for new ideas when the season began last month.
    — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • As digital technology and new forms of distribution rework the economics of the business, however, some media stalwarts have cast about for new forms of revenue.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 18 July 2022
  • Thus, scientists and clinicians alike have cast about for more reliable measures and have now found one based on a fundamental property of any conscious experience.
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
  • And as lawmakers and advocates cast about for solutions, there’s growing interest in an approach that’s relatively new on the policy scene: regulating algorithms themselves, or at least making companies more responsible for their effects.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2021

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