prodigal returned
Example Sentences
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Despite being jettisoned at fly-half when the prodigal returned in the autumn, Kinghorn is playing some of the best stuff of his life in his new-old role.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023
I lingered a little longer yet, ashamed at the part of the prodigal returned, which I feared I should play.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
If the prodigal returned by daylight and found us together, he would disport himself at our feet in a brief agony of penitence.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee
For the first twelve months Ibsen enjoyed the pleasures of the prodigal returned, and fed with gusto on the fatted calf.
From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund
Every day when he turned from his office to go home, it was with the unacknowledged hope that he might find the prodigal returned.
From Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves by Alger, Horatio
