How to Use single father in a Sentence
single father
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In the project, Alwyn plays a single father, who is trying to get his wife (Stone) back from a cult.
—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2024
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The 32-year-old single father rents a one-bedroom apartment with his 12-year-old son.
—Charlotte Kramon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
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Alvarez is a single father, raising three kids between the ages of four and 13.
—Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
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Muldrow raised his son, with help from his mother and sister, as a single father.
—The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2023
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Ann Branch died in 1965, leaving her husband the single father of three children.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
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In 2018, the single father moved into a modest three-bedroom unit there with his two children, Zoey and Dwight, and their dog, Buddy.
—Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
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Howard murdered Jed Henderson, 47, who was the single father of two young children.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 12 Mar. 2024
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Down on his luck and earning only $3,000 a year, the single father also needed money to help pay for his son’s pricey private school.
—Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
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Now a single father himself, Drake hopes to set a better example for his son Adonis.
—Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
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Her single father, Alexei Moskalyov was sentenced to two years in jail over online comments about the war.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
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Now his son is a single father himself, and one of Reardon’s favorite things was to walk with his grandson down Front Street, Lahaina’s seaside boulevard.
—Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
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Nolan Wright is a single father suffering from amnesia after surviving a car crash that killed his wife.
—EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
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In Inglewood, a world away from bureaucrats and lobbyists, Robertson grieves and struggles as a single father.
—Sarah Kwon | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
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Raised by her single father, a coroner in the tiny town of Lost Nation, Iowa and abandoned by her mother at a young age, Darby has always been interested in the darker aspects of humankind.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
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Growing up in Iowa, Darby was basically raised by her single father in his coroner’s office.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2023
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Because of that tragedy, Juan Gonzalez — who raised his son as a single father — now aspires to be a grief counselor, his attorney Adam Pennella wrote in a sentencing memo.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2024
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It’s built around a widowed single father, played by Jason Schwartzman, who rose to fame in Anderson’s Rushmore playing a motherless son raised by a single father.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 23 June 2023
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In it, Bialik starred as fashionable teenager Blossom, who was living with her single father and two older brothers after the departure of their mother.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2023
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Aladdin and her identical twin sister, Rebekah, were raised by a single father, who was living with multiple sclerosis.
—Janell Ross, Time, 1 July 2023
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In another case that highlighted Russia’s ever-harsher apparatus of repression, the single father of a 13-year-old girl who got in trouble at school for drawing a pro-Ukrainian picture was sentenced to two years in prison this week.
—Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
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Thompson also touches upon his experience as a single father.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
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But in late March, after a flurry of customer complaints, Jordan found that his account had been permanently deactivated, leaving the single father of five, for whom Uber was his only source of income, functionally jobless with no notice.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
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Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
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