orphan

Example Sentences

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Reports on the ground show that more than 39,300 children have lost one or both parents, including about 17,000 who have become orphaned.

From Los Angeles Times

Federal and state officials have put aside funding to deal with some of these so-called “orphaned” wells, but environmental advocates say it’s not enough.

From Los Angeles Times

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