Sentence examples for I was orphaned from inspiring English sources

I was orphaned at 10, lived in a kids' home until I was 15 and was then fostered.

I was orphaned at 14, and sent to live with relatives in Osceola, MO where I experienced that Bedford Falls-like community.

Eighteen-year-old Om Bahadur Raskoti, who lost his father, adds: "I was orphaned but an eye for an eye is not the way to go.

And here I am, orphaned at fifty-five, nobody's son, trying to plot my coördinates, to see my way clear.

He recalls a Turkmen saying — "Fatherless, I am orphan; motherless, I am captive" — and concludes, "Fate decreed two pains for me.

I know whereof I speak: I myself was orphaned as a youngster, and my own 10-year-old daughter is adopted from China.

He was orphaned in infancy.

I expect my initial reaction to be one of righteous, youthful indignation—I've been orphaned, damn it!—but I feel fine.

"I still feel as though I've been orphaned".

"And I had been orphaned there for awhile … to be quite honest,".

Jey was orphan and sibling-reared.