orphanage

Example Sentences

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Back in George Allan's organ orphanage, there is hope something might be done.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Since her deportation in August, Soumah said she has been allowed two short video calls to see Sabina, who is being kept in a Minsk orphanage.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

While Pope Leo spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, Hicks worked at an orphanage in El Salvador from 2005 to 2010, according to a biography released by the New York archdiocese.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

It pained me to have to tell her that he was at the orphanage still and growing up away from the other children, away from everyone, really, and would not talk at all.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk