cast for
Synonyms
Examples
To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.
The electorate voted to leave the EU, and therefore we leave. What is more, the number of people who voted to do so was higher than the number of votes cast for any government in our history. To me and many of my former colleagues in government who preferred to remain, the argument was over.
Our roles are chose for us in this world by the stern dictates of an unrelenting Fate; and many a man who thought to play the emperor on Life's stage found himself cast for a corpse instead.
You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
The election of 1834 came, and he was then elected to the legislature by the highest vote cast for any candidate. Major.
You're always being cast for what you've been in last.