orphanage
Example Sentences
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When the thought of her sending me off to an orphanage still gnawed at my mind?
From Literature
While Pope Leo spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, Hicks worked at an orphanage in El Salvador from 2005 to 2010, according to a biography released by the New York archdiocese.
From BBC
Falling debris from the destroyed Atacms on Tuesday damaged the roofs of a clinic and an orphanage and struck a private house in Voronezh, Russia said.
“If I am ever to lose my position, he could send them off to boarding school, or to an orphanage, or anywhere he pleased, really,” she fretted as the children eagerly presented themselves for inspection.
From Literature
He was mostly raised in an orphanage in Hermosillo.
From Los Angeles Times
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