How to Use typecast in a Sentence

typecast

verb
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  • 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 worst thing for an actor in Hollywood is to be typecast.
    — Manny Navarro, miamiherald, 17 June 2017
  • Even Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer was among those who typecast Keenum as a just-in-case second-stringer.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2018
  • But Zima was typecast as a girly drink, with all the virility of a white wine cooler.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • They’re often typecast as transplants who still root for old hometown teams.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • The urge to label, designate or typecast players has deep roots.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The four-time Grammy winner won’t be typecast so easily.
    — Matt Goulet, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2017
  • But Sheehan has been typecast, with his tacit approval.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Still, many aren’t comfortable and fear being typecast.
    — Bryan Stallings, Quartz, 14 Mar. 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
  • True, he was typecast ― as a driver ― but Bernie Martin clearly left his mark on the creative community.
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But despite her accomplishments, men in the film and television industries still tried to typecast her.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2020
  • With Warren, Trump is trying to typecast a potential 2020 rival.
    — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Behind Their Films If the performance typecast him as a roguish megalomaniac, there was still no shortage of roles for Boothe.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 15 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Then there was David Geffen, who had his own record company, so that was basically typecasting.
    — Barbra Streisand, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
  • In this business, there is always typecasting, and once The Wire became a cult sensation, Reddick was never going to lack for work in this particular area.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Green, often typecast as witches and femmes fatales, here takes on a too-rare leading role devoid of any such fantastical trappings and emerges with one of the strongest performances of her career.
    — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • They were often typecast, slotted in as planners or into operations roles.
    — Meg Pollaro, SPIN, 28 June 2023
  • While many typecast this juicy seasonal favorite as a special treat to indulge in after spending the day out in the sun, watermelon is actually full of nutrition.
    — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2023
  • Democrats have made a strategic decision to typecast Mr. Trump and anyone who supports him as hostile to immigration and therefore racist, in the expectation that some voters will recoil.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Perhaps the only Hollywood actor ever typecast as an animated talking bird, Gottfried was also the voice of the Aflac duck, the winged mascot for the global insurance company of the same name.
    — Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • As a black woman in a cutthroat legal profession, Loretta Lynch has often encountered people trying to typecast her.
    — Alana Abramson, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2017

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