How to Use orphanage in a Sentence

orphanage

noun

• After the death of his parents, he was raised in an orphanage.
• The girls from the orphanage will be able to work in the store to learn skills and meet the requirement.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• The orphanage now houses more than 90 elephants, and the twins will be added to the list.
  — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• So the footage was scrubbed and the trio reshot the number more simply, inside the orphanage.
  — Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
• Katia, Vlad, and Misha spent 11 days hiding in the home of a staff nurse near the orphanage.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
• His wife Joyce went across the street to an orphanage to recruit children to beef up the crowd of 300.
  — Blake Pontchartrain, NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• The four boys — his nephews — need a guardian or they will be split up and sent to an orphanage.
  — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024
• Bein and Lakpyee had been in an orphanage for a year when the Lewellens were able to come to Liberia and pick them up.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2020
• The new film tells the story of a headstrong young girl who grew up in an orphanage.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
• When the aunt could not handle him, he was put in an orphanage.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2021
• How else could a child make sense of being in an orphanage?
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Lillian was one of the smartest and most talented girls in the orphanage.
  — Marion Winik, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
• In 1942, his Jewish school was closed, leaving Carl to play chess and read books in the orphanage.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• The then-teenager would have bruises on him from his time at the orphanage, Rines recalled to the Post.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the very first days of filming, the crew found themselves in danger -- on the way to the orphanage their car came under shelling.
  — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Young girls housed in an orphanage are being taught to read or make lace.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• The mother went straight to the orphanage, which was in another town.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Prom Draw was started in the 1920s in order to include local kids from the orphanage in the prom fun.
  — Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2023
• In photos taken at the time, the chateau looks more like an orphanage than a real home.
  — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2023
• A day later, Colleen Thompson called the orphanage where the girl lived, asking how to adopt her.
  — Rachel Berry, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2022
• The Australian actress plays Sister Eileen, a nun who runs an orphanage, in the film.
  — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 26 May 2023
• Questions were also raised over the conduct of staff at the orphanage.
  — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• Bhagya, 12, is still in an orphanage in Nepal, where Aaron and Emma Skalka met her eight years ago.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• He was briefly placed in an orphanage while Aunt Emily looked for work.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• It’s about an orphanage in the Depression era of the 1930s that fielded a football team that went all the way to the state finals.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 8 June 2021
• The girl had cried in terror at being taken away from the orphanage.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• Colson spent the first nine years of his life in Haiti and was in an orphanage after his father passed away.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 29 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
• The women played best friends who met as children in an orphanage.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
• This was good news for rural Chinese, but a disaster for the orphanages.
  — Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024