orphanage
Example Sentences
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Falling debris from the destroyed Atacms on Tuesday damaged the roofs of a clinic and an orphanage and struck a private house in Voronezh, Russia said.
He was mostly raised in an orphanage in Hermosillo.
From Los Angeles Times
Dr. Larch, the man charged with making orphans feel at home, is here again, as are Angela and Edna, his nurses at the orphanage in rural St. Cloud’s, Maine.
Unable to cope, her birth mother placed her in an orphanage in the South Korean capital, Seoul.
From BBC
They lauded the orphanage’s “amazing team on the ground” and asked for donations to finance its continuation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
