Examples of recast in a Sentence
The director decided to recast the movie with unknowns.
When she quit the movie, I was recast in the leading role.
The director recast some of the actors in the play.
You should recast the last sentence in your essay to make it clearer.
He recast his political image to fit the times.
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And so Heyerdahl recast the island’s earliest settlers as members of a Caucasian race who had migrated from what is now Iraq or Turkey to the Americas and then across the Pacific, and who were tall, fair, blue-eyed, and bearded—not unlike Heyerdahl himself, as Pitts wryly observes.
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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Now, she is being recast as a brilliant linguist who survived conquest, enslavement and patriarchy.
—Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
According to an affidavit, WB’s law firm suggested that allegations were a form of vengeance by the boys’ mother against Busfield after their roles were recast for the fourth season.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 23 Jan. 2026
One piece is constructed of clay Linear B tablets recast as mobile phone chat bubbles, a meditation on the changing face of language and communication.
—Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
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Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Now, she is being recast as a brilliant linguist who survived conquest, enslavement and patriarchy.
—Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
According to an affidavit, WB’s law firm suggested that allegations were a form of vengeance by the boys’ mother against Busfield after their roles were recast for the fourth season.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 23 Jan. 2026
One piece is constructed of clay Linear B tablets recast as mobile phone chat bubbles, a meditation on the changing face of language and communication.
—Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Recast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recast. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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recast
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re·cast
(ˈ)rē-ˈkast 
recast; recasting
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