leper

Example Sentences

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Modified chaulmoogra oil, based on the Ball Method, was distributed worldwide and helped free countless people from isolated leper colonies.

From New York Times

“People with AIDs were considered to be the lepers of the time,” Pieters said in a recent interview at his Silver Lake home.

From Los Angeles Times

On Feb. 5, 1885, the newspaper, which called the Chinese neighborhood a violent, drug-addled “leper’s colony,” wrote that it would probably be “goodbye to Chinatown” if an “unoffending white man” were killed there.

From Los Angeles Times

As a child, Simon said she was called a “leper” and her elementary school classmates would joke about her having smallpox.

From Seattle Times

“But I couldn’t get on any team. Every time they heard who I had worked for,” he said, “they wanted me to ring a little bell as I came down the road like a leper.”

From Washington Post