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Example sentences from the Web for motherlessWhen Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award, I felt I could exhale, after working frenetically. How I Write: Jonathan Lethem|Noah Charney|September 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST Motherless babies are far less likely than others to survive their first two years. Christy Turlington's Labor of Love|Michelle Goldberg|June 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST Behind these statistics are the stories of promising lives cut short and of the motherless children left behind. The Fight for Women's Lives|The Daily Beast|September 25, 2009|DAILY BEAST It was a graceful tribute, and one that touched the motherless girl as few words could. Uncle Terry|Charles Clark Munn
But we are motherless, too; you should be sorry for us; you should wish to keep us. I have asked Thee to be a mother to my motherless children, and now, indeed, Thou hast given me my prayer. A Handful of Stars|Frank W. Boreham Motherless, his father a drunkard, the heavy arm of the law was laid upon him at the age of ten. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman At the time she was deeply interested in the future of four nephews, who were the motherless sons of her brother. The Leaven in a Great City|Lillian William Betts
adverbAustralian informal (intensifier)motherless broke Words nearby motherlessMothering Sunday, mother-in-law, mother-in-law's tongue, motherland, mother language, motherless, mother liquor, mother lode, motherly, mother-naked, Mother Nature Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |