Daddy Warbucks

Example Sentences

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Ever since, he has strained to remake himself as a municipal Daddy Warbucks, handing out Christmas gifts to kids and groceries to poor families.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2024

In short: Set in 1933, lonely business titan Daddy Warbucks decides he wants to adopt 11-year-old orphan Annie.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2021

This time the fabulous Taraji P. Henson gets ham up Miss Hannigan's solo "Little Girls," and Harry Connick Jr. plays the emotionally closed-off billionaire Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2021

Celina Smith has the title role, backed by co-stars including Harry Connick Jr. as Annie’s rescuer, Daddy Warbucks, and Taraji P. Henson as the orphanage’s callous Miss Hannigan.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2021

I wanted to be Daddy Warbucks when I grew up and live in a fancy mansion.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm