ORPHAN in a Sentence
Learn ORPHAN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
47 example sentences for ORPHAN, such as:
1. They were fond of the sweet orphan.
2. Over the path of the poor orphan child.
3. Alexey Alexandrovitch grew up an orphan.
4. He has been an orphan since he was five.
5. The civil war is making orphans of many children.
2. Over the path of the poor orphan child.
3. Alexey Alexandrovitch grew up an orphan.
4. He has been an orphan since he was five.
5. The civil war is making orphans of many children.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ORPHAN
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orphan
n. someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
n. a young animal without a mother
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 His property was confiscated; his child became an orphan and a beggar.
2 They were fond of the sweet orphan.
3 This lady was one of my nearest relations, an orphan from her infancy, and under the guardianship of my father.
4 She was an orphan like myself; like me, too, had been brought up by hand.
5 He told me that he would look about him for such an orphan child.
6 I had already broken out into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.
7 Alexey Alexandrovitch grew up an orphan.
8 If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder.
9 The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.
10 Noah was a charity-boy, but not a workhouse orphan.
11 But, now that fortune had cast in his way a nameless orphan, at whom even the meanest could point the finger of scorn, he retorted on him with interest.
12 You say you are an orphan, without a friend in the world; all the inquiries I have been able to make, confirm the statement.
13 I have it from the same source that you are both an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
Context Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
14 I had come to believe that he was an orphan with no relatives living, but one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
15 Over the path of the poor orphan child.
Example Sentence:
1 Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
2 He has been an orphan since he was five.
3 The war has left thousands of children as orphans.
4 The civil war is making orphans of many children.
5 I am so sorry to pester you but this is a project for orphans.
6 Mother Teresa earned fame and accolades over a lifetime spent working with the poor and the sick, and with orphans, lepers and AIDS patients, first in the slums of Kolkata, India, and then in many other countries.