How to Use orphan in a Sentence

orphan

1 of 2 noun

• After her friend dies, she is left to take on the care of orphan Gael aged 8.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• Left behind were nine métisse girls and 20 or so of the newborn orphans.
  — Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• The character grew from an orphan with a knack for the Force into a Rebel who trained in the ways of the Jedi.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• Today, the 3-and-a-half year old, known as Baby Doe, is an orphan no longer.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2023
• His father, who grew up an orphan, smoke and drank with him.
  — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• What if Bruce Wayne wasn’t an orphan — would there still be a Batman?
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 May 2022
• Both my parents died in the past few months, leaving me an orphan in midlife.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2023
• Moonrise Kingdom asks a lot of young Jared Gilman in the role of angry orphan Sam.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
• This show was going to make people want to steal an orphan.
  — Graham Techler, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2023
• This time, it’s embarked upon by a young orphan boy and his beloved camel.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• It’s a father figure, a strongman figure that attracts all of the orphan souls of the world.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• The orphanage took Sonia in but soon could manage to feed the orphans only three beans a day.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
• Some studies have shown that some of the Hamas - the majority of Hamas fighters were orphans.
  — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
• The family-friendly story stars Mowgli, the orphan, Kaa the snake, Shere Khan the tiger and giant puppets.
  — Marcia Luttrellcontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• Benjamin said many of the Hamas fighters are orphans due to Israeli attacks.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 30 Nov. 2023
• Emily, like Anne, is an orphan, but there the resemblance ends.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• In that red-haired orphan, the red-lipped, tattooed Workman has a kindred spirit.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2024
• Riad was raised in a school for orphans, his daughter Khuzama said.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said Monday that the child is now believed to be an orphan.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2022
• The 4-month-old, named Chosen’One Chase Garrett, became an orphan in a matter of seconds as the bullets whizzed past his tiny frame.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2022
• A number of orphan puppies from Helen Woodward came to the event, and Qualley fell in love with one of the furry pups and adopted him.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• His grandfather was an orphan that went on to have a large family.
  — Liza Foreman, Variety, 19 Nov. 2022
• And together with Perkin, the two make a pair reminiscent of the French orphan Madeline and her friend Pepito.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022
• Her son, Hrisha, is now an orphan, his father having died of a brain hemorrhage last year.
  — Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• The protagonist, Akio, is a scrappy and impulsive 18-year-old orphan determined to make it to the top of the sumo world, no matter the cost.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Maisie Brumble, the orphan, stows away on the ship of the famous Jacob Holland, hoping to help him destroy monsters.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• Muhammad grew up like an orphan in the city after his father went off to join the Kurdish freedom fighters in the mountains.
  — Kareem Abdulrahman, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• The central character in the film is an orphan who has been the victim of many disasters and is trying to find her way back to a more normal life.
  — Karen Idelson, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• The film recounts the events that occur after a nine-year-old Aboriginal Australian orphan boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
• This story of an orphan's hard-knock life is an optional add-on to a six- or seven-show Broadway series subscription.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024

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orphan

2 of 2 verb

• For starters, Elisa was found in a river and orphaned as a baby.
  — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 6 Mar. 2018
• Above all, the children murdered, and the many children now orphaned.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
• If they were found to be orphaned, they were allowed to travel to the United States.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• The four currently at the zoo were orphaned when their mothers were killed by boats.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2019
• Since then, he’s been taking pictures of the seal, who appears to be orphaned.
  — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
• But many of those that survive the bombardment have been left orphaned.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
• He was orphaned at 12 and reared by foster parents on a farm in the nearby town of Hurleyville.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• Aracely was convinced the virus would kill her and orphan her children.
  — Evan Allen and Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• When flames tore into Notre Dame in 2019, people who worked in the cathedral felt orphaned.
  — John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Dec. 2023
• There were so many children left alone, abandoned and orphaned by AIDS.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 13 Apr. 2018
• And a 6-year-old boy is now orphaned after his younger brother and parents were gunned down.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 10 May 2023
• The young bobcats may have been on school grounds because they’d been orphaned or abandoned, the news release states.
  — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
• In 2003, five baby elephants, which had been orphaned in Zimbabwe, were brought to the ranch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• The crash course in parenting was a challenge for Mom and Dad, but for the strong little girl who had been orphaned as a newborn?
  — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Williams was orphaned at 4 and spent the rest of his life overcoming obstacles.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 31 May 2017
• Little Willa, who was orphaned as a newborn, first crossed paths with her now-mother in April 2016.
  — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2019
• Last year, three bear cubs were orphaned after their mother was hit and killed on Tioga Road.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2017
• So the spasm of violence that left the Olathe couple dead Monday and their three children orphaned has left many who knew them in shock.
  — Tony Rizzo, kansascity, 2 Aug. 2017
• Not all the Lost Boys have thrived; some hit the bottle and ended up in jail (as might anyone orphaned, shot at and chased by crocodiles).
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• Big Oak Ranch serves orphaned, abused, abandoned and neglected children and has been home to more than 2,000 kids.
  — Josh Bean | [e-mail], al, 10 Jan. 2020
• Some had been orphaned or were placed in foster homes when their birth parents became unable to care for them.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and 16-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 16 May 2023
• The Child Tax Credit may be the starkest case of a program orphaned despite its inescapable value.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• He was orphaned as a teenager, but said community elders raised him and filled his head with stories of the past.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
• Her mother was born the daughter of a Methodist schoolmaster but was orphaned and taken in by a Muslim man who prayed five times a day.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 30 June 2023
• Some have been orphaned, while others endure the fear of their parents being killed by Israeli strikes.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• The character was that of an emotionally fragile girl orphaned by the Nazis.
  — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 29 Nov. 2018
• Born a slave in southwest Missouri and then orphaned, Carver became one of the nation’s finest botanists and inventors of the first half of the 20th century.
  — Dan Kelly, kansascity, 19 Feb. 2018
• Kristal was orphaned shortly after World War I and moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionary business in 1920.
  — Ian Deitch, The Seattle Times, 12 Aug. 2017
• The pair had been orphaned by the 2010 earthquake, and Hamilton says becoming dad to the pair changed his life exponentially.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024