Example sentences for: waif

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

  • (The PDFA no longer takes money from Philip Morris, RJR Reynolds, and Anheuser-Busch or other booze and smokes companies, but even so, the alcohol connection remains: Margeotes/Fertitta and Partners, which created the waif spot, also designs Stolichnaya vodka ads.)

  • The waif smashes china and plumbing fixtures in the commercial, screaming angrily about how heroin will ruin your life.

  • Having apparently grown tired of obsessing over just how skeletal the Ally McBeal Über -waif has become, the tabs take a different tack: They bare their fangs and become positively McCarthyesque in their zeal to rat out celebs who've become the least bit unsvelte.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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