Sentence Examples

1. As an orphan growing up in London Charlie had never got on with shoes.
2. Lance Sepulveda, a fourteen-year-old orphan, warily glanced around.
3. The king my father, who was called Tinacrio the Sapient, was very learned in what they call magic arts, and became aware by his craft that my mother, who was called Queen Jaramilla, was to die before he did, and that soon after he too was to depart this life, and I was to be left an orphan without father or mother.
4. The offspring of a romantic marriage, and left an orphan at an early age, he was adopted by Mr.
5. When he saw me in my ragged work clothes, Hawke said some things about me being an orphan from a demon attack and that my only remaining family was in Changirah.
6. I became an orphan when I was just a toddler after my parents died in a plane crash.
7. Having grown up an orphan in the City, he had always obeyed the cardinal rule of those who danced in the twilight of legality.
8. I was left an orphan with nothing but the miserable wages and trifling presents that are given to servants of my sort in palaces but about this time, without any encouragement on my part, one of the esquires of the household fell in love with me, a man somewhat advanced in years, full-bearded and personable, and above all as good a gentleman as the king himself, for he came of a mountain stock.
9. Reverend Dixby started it off by speaking at length about their Christian duty to pitch in together to ease the situation of this poor orphan.
10. She had been an orphan, adopted by the Quinns, and old Mr.