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 boy was sent to an orphanage and then adopted in 1955.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024
  • 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 orphanage gave them a name: a little girl named Selvi.
    — Maria Abi-Habib, New York Times, 6 May 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
  • Her birth records were sealed, and she was made a ward of the state and placed in a medical orphanage.
    — Fiona Tapp, SELF, 18 Jan. 2019
  • 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
  • Leighanna Kolp of Chugiak spent the first three years of her life in an orphanage in Taiwan.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
  • 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
  • Charming but run-down, Angel Guardian was once the site of one of the largest orphanages in Chicago.
    — Melissa Isaacson, SI.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The Australian actress plays Sister Eileen, a nun who runs an orphanage, in the film.
    — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 26 May 2023
  • The brothers had rented a bounce house and brought it to an orphanage in their home country.
    — Robert Philpot, star-telegram, 28 June 2018
  • Don Kretschmar held the baby girl from the Chinese orphanage.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The Tuckers hope to give back by raising money to provide food for an orphanage in Luanda.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
  • So no haunted hotels (sorry, The Shining and 1408) or orphanages (sorry, The Orphanage).
    — Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025

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