Sentence examples for missing parent from inspiring English sources

And yet almost all of his roles have this common thread of a missing parent.

"That was the question I had meeting the hypnotherapist," she says of her missing parent.

A thoughtful and truthful story that could have been enhanced by an update on Emma's missing parent.

The genial family entertainment "We Bought a Zoo" is also built around the hollow space left by a missing parent.

What can be said for sure is that each of my parents grew up with a critically missing parent — she a mother, he a father — and pretty much had to fake it in these roles with their own kids.

She borrowed it from a beloved but unsettling children's book by P. D. Eastman, published fifty years ago, in which a baby bird, which hatches while its mother is off catching worms, leaves the nest in an anxious search for the missing parent it has never seen, asking a variety of creatures — a cow, a dog, a kitten, and, finally, a power shovel — if they are she.

Ronnie, Kareena, Ash, Tariq and the missing parents.

At first, the missing parents were something of a plot device.

This time, in one day, often in one neighborhood, scores of children are suddenly missing parents.

Poverty and missing parents did, too, and the football coach and his wife seemed to care for the whole town.

Finally, the missing parents, who can't get a cellphone signal, merit the involvement of a search team.