How to Use outcast in a Sentence

outcast

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  • She felt like a social outcast.
  • The drag queens, the outcasts, the eccentrics were all there.
    — Alyssa Hardy, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The outlaw and the outcast have always found a home among the yucca and cholla in the desert sprawl of Palm Springs.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2021
  • That song spoke to me so much as someone who felt like an outcast.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 8 July 2022
  • Still, the outcast lovers feast on human body parts, a butchery the film does not shy away from.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
  • If TikTok is a high school, Brooklynne Webb has been an outcast for the last year.
    — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Two outcasts, a preacher’s daughter and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, hold the key to uncovering the truth.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In the last, Adrien, to that point a weirdo outcast, is invited in on the camaraderie.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Kylee feels connected to the lyrics since she's felt like an outcast more than once.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But in Klong Toey, Father Joe, now 82, found his place in the world, an outcast among outcasts.
    — Seth Mydans, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • It’s what everyone fears: to be an outcast and chased by the mob on the internet.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Here’s the key: Scenes of a plane crash are interrupted by a flashback to a prank call to group outcast Misty.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • But when a retired doctor teaches him to read and write, the teenager feels like less of an outcast.
    — Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • In the 2004 film, Lohan portrayed Cady, a student who had just moved from Africa and was now an outcast at her high school.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • With thick dark hair and a creased smile, Lichtenstein was seen by some of his peers as an outcast with a mischievous bent.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But Biden wasn’t there to reinforce bin Salman’s outcast state.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The same bad behaviors will continue, and you’ll be made to feel like an outcast.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Linklater is drawn to outcasts, to ramblers, to those looking to expand their minds in more ways than one.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The charge, which the father says was bogus, made his son an outcast who no longer had gang protection.
    — Danny Robbins, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Its author, Amerie, has to grapple with the messy fallouts as a total outcast.
    — William Earl, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The House of Mirth charts our heroine’s two-year descent from prettiest girl in the room to social outcast.
    — Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Because nobody wants to be alone by themselves and an outcast.
    — Malina Saval, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • This leads us to becoming outcast, bullied and led astray.
    — Chloé Hayden, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • His songs lifted up the outcast, made heroes of the mundane, and never failed to find the humor in our unique humanness.
    — Liza Lentini, Spin, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This classic follows Jenna Rink, a 13-year-old outcast whose wish to grow up and escape the horrors of high school has come true.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Three prostitutes live in the wasteland by the sea, where a village of outcasts has been established.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • With its dark sense of humor and propulsive pacing, the linchpin of the series is the head outcast himself, Jackson Lamb.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Bribe outcast hottie Patrick (Heath Ledger) to charm and disarm riot grrrl Kat, of course.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 May 2023
  • This is true right down to our heroine’s friendship with two fellow outcasts who steal every scene.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Stephen King’s debut novel, which was first released 50 years ago on April 5, tells the chilling story of a telekinetic teenager, Carrie White, who’s an outcast at school and bullied by her peers.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024

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