Example sentences for: fatherless

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

  • Bono has left her newly fatherless seven-year-old and nine-year-old in school back in California while she came to Washington to raise money for her campaign to win her late husband's congressional seat.

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

  • It's a culture that traps the poor in isolated, fatherless ghettos.

  • The metaphor undermines the Losing Ground Murray, the guy who writes that "[u]ntil the government began masking the social costs created by large numbers of fatherless children, civilized communities everywhere stigmatized illegitimacy."

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


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