Example sentences for: fatherless

How can you use “fatherless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The women DeParle dwells on are poster children for irresponsibility as a lifestyle: At every turn there are unexpected pregnancies, out of wedlock fatherless children, and abusive-cum-substance-abusive-cum-mooching boyfriends.

  • Our compassion must extend to the poor and to the fatherless.

  • Eventually, communities of fatherless welfare families will become communities of intact, working families.

  • "What tedious work it is," confessed a spinster aunt tending to her fatherless nieces and nephews in 1860.

  • Poor and fatherless, he grew up in 1920s Birmingham, one of the most segregated cities in the country.


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