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Example sentences for: waif

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For instance, contrary to what the raccoon-eyed waif suggests, many heroin users are able to use their drugs and conduct functional lives.
The waif spot is one of a series of new anti-drug commercials that the government will pay $1 billion to air over the next five years.
A writer catalogs the six phyla of screen aliens, which include "the small, gray, hairless, chinless, big-eyed waif" à la Close Encounters and "the comic-relief plush toy" such as Alf.
In broad outline, it echoes Great Expectations , Dickens' story of Pip the waif who is befriended by Magwitch the convict, though Carey's book is also partly a reflection on how Dickens' novel came to be written.
She stares doe-eyed into the camera, like the naked waif in Edvard Munch's Puberty , who seems just at that instant to realize her true vulnerability.