Sentence examples similar to had been orphan from inspiring English sources

Mary Ellen had been orphaned as a baby.

They were in grief, many had been orphaned themselves.

By fifteen, he had been orphaned, and was fending for himself.

She had been orphaned two years earlier when her parents died in a train crash in Egypt.

Mr. Coltoff said he did not yet have an idea of how many children had been orphaned.

Many could no longer absorb food or water; several had been orphaned on their long journey to the camp.

He even becomes a surrogate parent to a family of orangutans who had been orphaned by hunters.

Brendan Bannon, 43, is a photojournalist who has been working in Africa since 2005, when he began teaching photography and writing to teenagers who had been orphaned by AIDS.

A majority of the bewitched girls had lost fathers; at least half were refugees from or had been orphaned by attacks in "the last Indian war".

They were sisters, in their mid-twenties, and had been orphaned in the genocide; Nyirabeza had looked after them, and now they looked after her.

The Americans said that the children had been orphaned in the earthquake, and that they had authorization from the Dominican government to bring the children into the country.