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Example sentences for: waif

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

The waif smashes china and plumbing fixtures in the commercial, screaming angrily about how heroin will ruin your life.
For instance, contrary to what the raccoon-eyed waif suggests, many heroin users are able to use their drugs and conduct functional lives.
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.
(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.)