waif

How to use waif in a sentence

Ann is an opera singer, fragile and captivating onstage, somewhere between waif and warrior.

A tiny quiver of the eyelids, and a tremor through the thin hands and Mysie—poor ruined broken waif of the world—was gone.

I have heard a waif word in the country,” said I, a little nettled, “that you were a hard man to drive.

My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.

JANE JOURNEYS ONRUTH COMFORT MITCHELL

You were a little waif, fed cake and tea at the millionaire's table.

THE DEVILJOSEPH O'BRIEN

Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the wave.

That money and the honor he could acquire must have been tempting to the waif, but it did not outweigh his human sympathy.

He led her to the little waif saying simply: "I have brought you a Christmas gift, dear."

In the good old days of Thursday Island there passed as waif currency a certain local jest.

And, mark you, the man was no destitute waif devoid of the means of procuring himself shelter from the rain.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985