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Example sentences for "orphaned"

Lexicographically close words:
orography; orotund; orphan; orphanage; orphanages; orphans; orphrey; orphreys; orpiment; orpine
  1. At last the two came back with mutually opposite emotions, and their way led them by the resting-place, the manor of Ottomar and near the orphaned temple of the park.

  2. But when Mrs. Silver adopted Ruth, the babe was orphaned indeed.

  3. It was thus arranged, and this Christmas two years, Fairhaven received more than sixty poor orphaned children, and the good work was actually commenced.

  4. Stands the seven-hilled city as of yore Oft her orphaned lot awakes my tear, For alas, her Caesar is no more?

  5. Thou owest thyself A sovereign to this orphaned land, by thee Robbed of its other lord!

  6. An hundredfold did she return to Esmond Clarenden all the care and protection he had given to her in her orphaned childhood.

  7. This hour restores to the orphaned Balbilla, father and mother and gives her besides the husband that she loves.

  8. I give you Summer House," said I, "because you are orphaned and live alone and have nothing.

  9. Thank you both very much," murmured Evelyn, her voice a little broken with the thought of her orphaned condition; "I shall try to deserve your great kindness.

  10. It was Hannah, his elder sister, who had been as a mother to him in his orphaned childhood, that Menander recognized.

  11. Our father died when she was very young and our mother soon followed and so my orphaned little sister was left to my care.

  12. Because I am the orphaned girl," was the quiet reply.

  13. Again he commended his soul to God, praying him to watch over the two children he had loved so well, and who, but for him, would long ago have been orphaned through their father's indifference.

  14. Calvin; res ad idololatriam pertinentes, as Junius; monilia idolis consecrata, as Pareus calleth them; all writing upon that place.

  15. You could leave him in his helpless, impoverished, orphaned infancy to perish!

  16. He hopes to live yet to know, that gallant father and patient mother will live over again in the happy faces of the children of their orphaned child.

  17. With a sigh Fran‡ois Ribaut abandons all hopes of seeing once more the child he had baptized, the orphaned daughter of his friend.

  18. The man lies there, who appealed to his honor, to protect the orphaned child, but he is silent in death.

  19. An orphaned sister in Iowa, his only living near relative, gazes to-day at the appreciative letter she has received from the Navy Department at Washington.

  20. For that matter, have any of you wild beasts on German submarines ever worried yourselves about the families you orphaned by your inhuman crimes at sea?

  21. Her son is alone and unprotected, and I come to ask for the boy what you would not refuse to any orphaned stranger commended to your care,--an education which will enable him in future to confront life and the world.

  22. Then, remembering that she was orphaned and what sort of a honeymoon hers was like to be, she turned and sought her chamber, weeping.

  23. I cannot hold the Hall against that foreign Abbot and his hirelings, and an orphaned heiress is but a chattel to be sold.

  24. Comus Phoebe was left to the vacancy of the orphaned house, to a blank where her presence had been gladness, and to relief more sad than pain, in parting with her favourite brother, and seeing him out of danger of provoking or being provoked.

  25. The kind old chairman then met her, quite with an air of fatherly protection, such as elderly men often wear towards orphaned maidens, and inquired more particularly for her brother's health.

  26. They had been orphans together, and in their early orphaned days, the elder had been something of father and mother too to Hugh Pryde.

  27. He had gathered up into his own capable hands the shabby threads of her affairs—mismanaged for years, but—even so—too scant to be tangled, and the charge of her two orphaned boys.

  28. Nor, at this critical moment, did he forget his uncle--the man who had been a father to him in his orphaned boyhood.

  29. He had had singularly little "spoiling" in his orphaned life so far, except occasionally from "Uncle Mackworth.

  30. Within six weeks, the girl found herself orphaned and mistress of the great Lee fortune, but utterly alone in the world, for her grandfather had died the year previous and Sherman had just married and gone back to America.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orphaned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bereaved; bereft; deprived; fatherless; motherless; orphan