How to Use prodigal in a Sentence

prodigal

adjective

• Jack, the prodigal son, is home after two decades away and a long stint in prison.
  — Heather Hansman, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2022
• Rather than focus on the younger son, the prodigal son, Keller turns the story around.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
• That prompted headlines about the return of the prodigal son.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 11 May 2020
• But then there is Greece, which may serve as a model of a prodigal nation.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2018
• Both were once prodigal children but life hasn’t been kind.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• But the deeper throughline of The Stones and Brian Jones involves the primal wound of a prodigal son.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2023
• Olivier Giroud played the role of Pélé, slipping the ball into the path of the prodigal son who was careering down the right flank.
  — SI.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• One of them remembered me from a long-ago visit and greeted me like the prodigal son.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2023
• In his view, the novel recasts the biblical story of the prodigal son.
  — M.j. Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022
• The reception will be louder for the return of the prodigal Sonny.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2022
• All the prodigal daughters, abandoned sons, and shipwrecked girls next door got that way for a reason.
  — Nicholas Dawidoff, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
• In Sweden, summer is embraced like the return of a prodigal son.
  — Madeline Weinfield, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2023
• If there were those on the island who felt forgotten by their prodigal basketball star, that changed in the fall of 2017.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2021
• Boughton has eight children, but Jack is his prodigal son, and the two pastors have spent much of their friendship puzzling over him.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020
• When the Giants reached out, Sandoval jumped at the chance to return home, a prodigal son chastened over his misdeeds.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• The prodigal son comes back to the tolerant and multi-cultural fold.
  — Ira Bedzow, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• As in a film montage, our prodigal taquero hero will go off, train and perfect his craft, and come back stronger than ever.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2022
• Nouwen was inspired to write his 1992 book by observing the Rembrandt painting that depicts the scene when the prodigal son comes home.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017
• If someone would just send me a weekly cutdown that ditched the rest of the show, this prodigal critic might be convinced to return and watch more.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2019
• For the most part, though, the Ganton clan is worn out, sharpened by tragedy, and disinclined to pamper their prodigal daughter.
  — Rebekah Denn, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2021
• There's a reason the parable of the prodigal son deeply resonates with us, regardless of our relationship to the Bible.
  — Gerrick D. Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• Two books about different churches and their prodigal daughters coming out in the same year.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 2 June 2021
• The prodigal son had returned to visit the responsible brother who stayed to help.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 10 Dec. 2019
• The following Sunday, the topics included the parable of the prodigal son.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
• In one such meeting, the whole village came out to welcome the returning Turkish Cypriot like a prodigal son.
  — Darren Loucaides, Slate Magazine, 10 Apr. 2017
• Aaron Rodgers, the prodigal son, held court following his first practice with the Green Bay Packers following his long stalemate with the team.
  — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 July 2021
• His prodigal firstborn son has risen as heir to his religious empire.
  — Elizabeth Dias, Time, 1 Mar. 2018
• Facebook Show more sharing options Sez Me … While not our prodigal sons by definition, the best of them do leaveth.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• Refusing to grow bitter or give up hope that someday my brother will return like the prodigal son.
  — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• A romantic Goodison Park return for prodigal son Wayne Rooney seemed to be written in the stars ahead of his second debut for the club.
  — SI.com, 27 July 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024