How to Use typecast in a Sentence

typecast

verb

• Her television work typecast her as a helpless victim.
• Time will tell if Sweeney is typecast into these for much longer.
  — Kara Kennedy, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Brosnan doesn't want his painting to be typecast, and so his art is all over the place.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 16 May 2018
• The urge to label, designate or typecast players has deep roots.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• But Zima was typecast as a girly drink, with all the virility of a white wine cooler.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• These days, hope has been typecast as naïve or privileged, a way of ignoring our problems.
  — Jamil Zaki, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
• Yet the strip loin, dense and rosy, resists being typecast as safely straightforward.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• But in all that success the Kia brand has become a bit shopworn, typecast as down-market and generic.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Kit Harington is hanging up his hat as being typecast as do-gooders.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2024
• Even then, breaking free of typecasting proved difficult.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 June 2026
• But don’t be misled into thinking Burnham’s been typecast his whole career long.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
• There is typecasting, and then there is this extremely specific thing Amell keeps being hired to do.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2025
• His work was groundbreaking in an era when Black actors were typecast into playing butlers, porters or pimps.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2023
• Even Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer was among those who typecast Keenum as a just-in-case second-stringer.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2018
• From killer clowns to ancient vampires and back again, Bill Skarsgård isn’t worried about being typecast.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
• Brands will soon be routinely using face-scanning software to typecast customers and cross-promote products that may fit their niche.
  — Quartz, 2 Oct. 2022
• But despite her accomplishments, men in the film and television industries still tried to typecast her.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2020
• Johansson found solace from typecasting in the New York theater scene.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
• Dobbs, who’d been typecast as a journeyman backup to that point in his career, suddenly was a commodity.
  — Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 31 July 2024
• Warner, however, was looking to shake things up and get Bogart out of being typecast as a gangster.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
• With all that range, Goldwyn is unbothered by the notion that his career has been influenced by any sort of typecasting.
  — Dan Heching, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
• Then there was David Geffen, who had his own record company, so that was basically typecasting.
  — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
• Hollander, who is straight and, at fifty-six, a first-time dad, dismissed the idea that he is typecast as malicious gay men who betray their female confidantes.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• The characters couldn’t be more different, but that’s nothing new for Caplan, who has avoided being typecast.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 24 May 2023
• But those effects evaporated when her team turned their lens to mutts with retriever ancestry, who are harder to typecast by appearance alone.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• Though often typecast as a mere Thanksgiving pie ingredient, pecans are more than deserving of a spot in your pantry (or freezer) all year long.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
• McGowan was swiftly typecast as an edgy ingénue, with a public image that was part Goth and part Jazz Age flapper.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2017
• John is still into Bulgaria and piano-playing, has survived a nasty fall from a horse, and resents having been typecast as a Tory toff.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
• As a result, the city has sometimes been typecast as a boring financial bro with catatonic cuisine to match—a place with too many steakhouses and little else to hang its culinary hat on.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2026
• Perhaps the tirade was the motive for underlings to typecast her as some sort of mole for the dwindling ranks of the president’s Republican enemies.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 11 May 2018