prodigal

Example Sentences

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He’s also been taken out of the Kentucky landscape that was essential to “Justified” and sent on a road trip to Detroit, where he’s now an unwanted outsider rather than a prodigal son.

From New York Times

He calls his sixth studio offering an audio movie about a “prodigal son” filled with church, soul music and Southernisms.

From Seattle Times

“Why does the prodigal son of a president get diversion on the same gun charge — along with the sweetheart deal on the tax crimes?”

From Washington Times

Whether Celtic folk see it as the return of the prodigal son or the reappointment of the shameless one, Brendan Rodgers seems to be on his way back to Parkhead, bar a late hitch.

From BBC

And Egypt’s strategic importance, in the region and beyond, has long allowed the president to dodge a reckoning over the country’s prodigal spending, sluggish economy and political repression.

From New York Times