How to Use cast a pall on/over in a Sentence

cast a pall on/over

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  • Seven horse deaths cast a pall over the race the entire week.
    — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2023
  • That cast a pall over my intense and growing affection for her.
    — Ron Winters, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • That monologue really did cast a pall over the entire episode.
    — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Seeing their leading rusher get carted off the field could have cast a pall over the team for weeks.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The fall in Chinese chip stocks may cast a pall over the sector globally.
    — Ryan Vlastelica, Bloomberg.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The trials cast a pall over the entire project of engineering blood.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • All of this has cast a pall on soccer's greatest celebration of itself.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The deaths linked to the antibody cast a pall over recent trial results largely seen as hopeful.
    — Bycharles Piller, science.org, 21 Dec. 2022
  • And those cast a pall on the gender clinic as calls to end the surgeries overwhelmed its social media channels.
    — Kate Sosin, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
  • And the Olympics only happen once every four years; the empty stands in Tokyo have cast a pall on these games.
    — Sean Gregory/tokyo, Time, 26 July 2021
  • But a few nominees’ past actions have cast a pall over otherwise historic triumphs.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Even two years after the crash, Coriolan fears that her friend’s absence will cast a pall on the ceremony.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Yet safety concerns over amyloid-lowering medicines could cast a pall on such ambitions.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The Nazi acts cast a pall over the practice of revoking citizenship.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The entertainment business may not have turned the page on the labor strife that cast a pall over 2022.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But his legal problems, which have become a financial drag on his campaign war chest, are expected to cast a pall over the event.
    — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But news that six people were killed in a parade at Highland Park, Illinois, cast a pall over the event.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Several mall shootings and flash mob robbery sprees cast a pall on Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Not surprisingly, that trend has cast a pall over single-members LLCs.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 2 July 2023
  • The impact is perhaps most visible in the real estate market, where the run-up in mortgage rates has cast a pall over homebuying.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The network canceled the series, but the scandal cast a pall over the magazine’s reputation.
    — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 2 May 2025
  • But the stock cast a pall on the realities of the situation, again a bear market phenomenon.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Nonetheless, the turmoil could cast a pall over the Cannes Film Festival this month, where a lot of indie movie deals happen.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
  • But the allegations cast a pall over the show’s brilliantly bonkers final season, which concluded with a sweet finale Thursday and took its showbiz satire to dizzying new heights.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • The war in Gaza has cast a pall over the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting and reflection, charity and community.
    — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Lisa O’Connor, the vice president of the church’s board, said she was deeply disappointed by the tone of the board’s discussion, which cast a pall over this year’s festivities.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • That brings us to Biden’s cancer, a diagnosis that surely cast a pall over the various book tours and panel discussions on what the Bidens and their handlers did or did not obscure.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • News of a federal inquiry into Mizuhara's possible links to gamblers cast a pall on Dodgers' 2024 opening games, played in Seoul.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Senna’s death cast a pall over all racing that month, especially after the death of Roland Ratzenberger in San Marino qualifying the day before.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
  • The startling collapse of FTX Trading has cast a pall on the entire cryptocurrency sector, sowing fears that even that the world's biggest exchange for digital assets may not be safe.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022

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