Sentence examples for estranged relatives from inspiring English sources

The E.P.A. and OSHA in particular have a history of behaving like estranged relatives.

It was as if estranged relatives suddenly realized that their bad blood was unseemly and petty in the face of tragedy.

A letter in Clemency's luggage gives the family's address as The Great Hall in Somerset, yet Clemency is not delivered to her estranged relatives.

Ms. Bandon's experience has been echoed across the city, as people all over the country and the world have used telephones and e-mail, faxes and pagers to find estranged relatives, irretrievably lost lovers, a traveler met on a flight to Nashville, a one-night stand scrupulously ignored until now, a second-grade classmate remembered fondly for her love of Abba and her habit of hair-twirling.

From office workers to rescue teams, estranged relatives to the familiar faces at our neighborhood stores, we joined together in countless unspoken comfort rituals.

Newspapers run pieces about how estranged relatives were at last brought together by tragedy.

They may desperately try to obtain consent for a demented patient with no relatives from anyone available, including staff from the nursing home where the patient resides, an administrative officer in their community, or a completely estranged relative who has not talked to the patient for several decades.

Evicted homeowners and tenants, mentally ill and often estranged from relatives, became homeless.

Some are abandoned by or estranged from relatives; some belong in rehabilitation centers, where care is much cheaper, but because of their immigration status they are not enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare, so the places will not take them.

Sorrows, like estranged, unsavory relatives, arrived for a party I didn't want to attend.

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