castoffs

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• He found a castoff military uniform, he said, to use as a disguise when he walked the streets.

• Controversially, some hikers even live out of these boxes, eating and using others’ castoffs in an effort to save cash.

• I spent several days with his team at Nevada two years ago and came away amazed at the culture of a group of players outsiders would have considered castoffs.

• That creates a tough task for Kansas City’s battered offensive line, which is littered with backups and castoffs.

• People nurtured their starters as if they were particularly needy children, traded recipes for their castoff dough, and photographed the pillowy interiors and artfully slashed crusts like proud parents.

• The underdog franchise, then only five years old, was led by a bowlegged castoff named Johnny Unitas at quarterback.

• A player comes on under the shadow, made up in the castoff mail of a court buck, a wellset man with a bass voice.

• The child pointed to what appeared to be some ragged, castoff clothes left in the hole by the late occupant.

• Behold him, beneath the mass of stale and putrid slime, a castoff, friendless and penniless vagabond.

• Doubtless she would hail his wish—half a reform in itself—to castoff the outward signs of an accepted degradation.

• So he picked up some castoff feathers of the Peacocks and stuck them among his own black plumes.