foundling

Example Sentences

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He's still raising a Force-wielding foundling on “The Mandalorian” for however long Disney+ keeps that title character alive and little Grogu dependent on him.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2025

In a logging camp in 1934 New Brunswick, newborn Pearly is raised alongside Bruno, a foundling bear cub given to her father.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2024

The back is inscribed, in Dutch, “My burden is heavy, goodbye my dear Femke, Born 1st September 1795,” by a mother who, two centuries, ago abandoned her baby as a foundling.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

In his many and widely read novels, Dickens sympathetically depicted the hardscrabble lives of poor, working-class, and middle-class urban dwellers, setting scenes in foundling homes, prisons, impoverished neighborhoods, and dark city streets.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Lazlo was a boy no longer, no trace remaining—outwardly—of the small bald foundling with cuts on his head.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor