OUTCAST in a Sentence

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A man could gamble himself to poverty and still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast.

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 Meanings and Examples of OUTCAST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
outcast
 a.  cast out; degraded; excluded from a society
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  A wife who didn't burn herself would be a social outcast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  A man could gamble himself to poverty and still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The bitter words Rhett had spoken in the early days of the war came back to her, and she remembered him saying he would never fight for a society that had made him an outcast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  It had the worst reputation of any spot in or near Atlanta, for here lived in filth outcast negroes, black prostitutes and a scattering of poor whites of the lowest order.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  It was Erik, her fellow outcast, to whom she wanted to run for sanctuary.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  He stood in the doorway, looking mournfully on, seeing his friends and companions at work, and feeling like an outcast.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  Poor Jurgis was now an outcast and a tramp once more.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
8  Among such was the delicate woman who sits there by the lamp, dropping slow tears, while she prepares the memorials of her own lost one for the outcast wanderer.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
10  Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
11  In all seasons of calamity, indeed, whether general or of individuals, the outcast of society at once found her place.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  To her previous tortures was added now that sense of mortification and of being an outcast which she had felt so distinctly on meeting Kitty.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 29
13  The wounds of which she had spoken, seemed to be about the neck of the self-made outcast.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
14  An outcast, in a certain sense; but with the desperate bravery of his rat-like existence.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  That was when he picked up with this outcast padre here.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
Example Sentence:
1  She had never been cold or hungry or outcast from Society.
2  He was treated as a social outcast.
3  Jesus himself seems to accept dinner invitations indiscriminately, often eating with social outcasts.
4  She has spent her life trying to help gypsies, beggars and other social outcasts.