orphan
Example Sentences
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He was in El Salvador for five years working with a group that assisted orphaned and abandoned children.
In a word or two, the film hints that she’s an orphan and he has daddy issues.
From Los Angeles Times
It prioritises vulnerable children, including amputees and orphans, and pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.
From BBC
After 3½ decades of Francoism, during which, the author reminds us, the dictator “decided that Spaniards were too childish to govern themselves,” there was a palpable sense of a nation orphaned.
I once threw an impromptu bash on the 4th night of Chanukah, sharing latkes and dreidels with out-of-town students and other “holiday orphans.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
