orphan
Example Sentences
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My own grandmother came here as an orphan when she was 6 or 7 years old.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
They moved on to the titular boxer in "Creed," tormented by his father's legacy, and the villainous Killmonger of "Black Panther," traumatized by being an orphan in a racist world.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
Initially, Dunk doesn’t know him to be anything other than an orphan in need of a purpose.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
Grainier was an orphan who was sent to Idaho “at the age of six, or possibly seven,” as Mr. Patton tells us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
I’d heard tell of those orphan trains that brought in city kids to be picked out of a herd on a church stage and brought home like a new steer.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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