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castaway

[ US /ˈkæstəˌweɪ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɑːstəwˌe‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who is rejected (from society or home)
  2. a shipwrecked person

How To Use castaway In A Sentence

  • Koh lipe is part of Tarutao national park and which was used as part of the 'Survivor' TV series a couple of years back, where 'castaways' have to take their chances on a desert island. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Shipwrecked sailors, castaways, and that famous case some time back where a bunch of people were in a plane crash?
  • Once there, Anson Burlingame, with his gentle manner and courtly presence, drew from those enfeebled castaways all the story of the burning of the vessel, followed by the long privation and struggle that had lasted through forty-three fearful days and across four thousand miles of stormy sea. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
  • If we were to be castaways on a desert island, these are the goods we would pack by the caseload.
  • Their lives are calm, to put it mildly, until they take in a young Polish castaway, who washes up unconscious on their beach.
  • Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James Ellroy. BBC - Ouch
  • Rotate products from the back of the shelf to the front during cleaning, and clear out cabinet castaways by using cookbooks that have food indexes in the back.
  • Looking for the consolation prize of a seal cull in Carnley Harbour in the Auckland Islands group, Captain Thomas Musgrave and the mate Francois Raynal were accompanied by three other sailors - and soon-to-be castaways.
  • THE ship which thus appeared before the castaways had long "tramped" the ocean, wandering from one port to another as freights offered. The Wrecker
  • Picture-perfect castaway islands with gently swishing palm trees, fringed by the silkiest of sands and by turquoise seas. Times, Sunday Times
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