orphan

Example Sentences

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For generations, this imposing photograph of a clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln—age 51 and at the crest of newfound national fame—inexplicably remained an orphan in the Lincoln visual canon.

From The Wall Street Journal

It didn’t matter that he was an orphan who never quite fit into the puzzles of families he was shoved into.

From Literature

But “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is less concerned about the aristocracy than what life is like for smallfolk like Dunk, an orphan who spent his early childhood scraping by in Flea Bottom.

From Salon

And it’s incredibly unfair that Renee Good is dead, that her wife is a widow and her son an orphan.

From Salon

“You are the waif’s last relation in the world. Without you, the child is destined to a most piteous life in the orphan asylum.”

From Literature