He took great care, but could not succeed in getting a single son from any one of them, and a long time elapsed during which he continued a sonless man.
Surely, sonless as I am, it is the gods that have sent him unto me!
It is said that sacrifices, charitable gifts, ascetic penances, and vows observed most carefully, do not confer religious merit on a sonless man.
Pandu replied, 'Ye fortunate ones, it is said that for the sonless there is no admittance into heaven.
A pious widow vowed to the sonless shrine of my ancestors.
By naming them with reverence a sonlessman obtains a son, and a pool man obtains wealth.
Unto the sonless Sudra his master should offer the funeral cake.
The Burdwan Pundits understand this verse to mean that the Sudra should offer the funeral cake unto his sonless master and support masters if old and weak.
Thy mother hath today been made sonlessby thee, and thy spouse, the princess of Kosala, a widow.
At all events Mahomed Lateef, his father, went back to his sonless house with a vague sense of injustice not to be lost this side the grave, and a palsied shake of his head only to be stilled by death.
Between him and the perdition of a sonless death stood but one life; a life so frail that it had only been saved hitherto by the expedient of dressing the priceless boy in petticoats, and so palming him off on the dread Shiva as a girl.
Thyra had never wanted a daughter, but she pitied and despised all sonless women.
She had only one son, whom she worshipped; "she never wanted a daughter, but she pitied and despised all sonless women.
Mine eyes one tearful river, My frame one fearful shiver, My husbandsonless ever, And I a sonless wife To live a death in life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sonless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
