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
• 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
• Last month, he was placed under house arrest and his daughter was placed in the orphanage.
  — Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 21 Apr. 2023
• Roberts was born to a young, unmarried mother in Hong Kong in the 1960s, and spent the beginning of his life in an orphanage.
  — Kristy Totten, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
• From there, it will be given to refugees, orphanages, unhoused people or others in need.
  — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• Born in a rural Chinese village, she was abandoned and placed into an orphanage before being adopted and raised in the US.
  — Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024