prodigal

How to use prodigal in a sentence

It’s a document of Gullah Geechee culinary history, as well as the story of a self-described “prodigal son” returning to the land that raised him.

I doubt if the State itself has ever known the meaning of hospitality since the old ranch days, when, of course, it was prodigal.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon.

Sterile, dissipated and prodigal, she made her husband very unhappy, thus avenging the first Mme. Brunner.

The rooks were awake in Randolph Crescent; but the windows looked down, discreetly blinded, on the return of the prodigal.

TALES AND FANTASIESROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

In a pew on the left-hand side a little old man was holding forth as to the “prodigal son.”

In the intervals of his serious labors Napoleon gave way to a life of sensuality, and the women were prodigal of their charms.

The prodigal was a backslider: when furthest from home he could yet think and speak of the privileges of his father's house.

Nowhere in any mountain land does Nature offer the good things of the wilds with more prodigal hand than in the Himalaya.

I may be the prodigal son, but you're the devil of a moral lecturer, you are!

THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSON

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OCTOBER 26, 1985