How To Use motherless In A Sentence
- There have been cases of female animals ‘adopting’ motherless young ones of other species.
- Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence.
- Billy (a charming Jamie Bell), is motherless, his dad and brother jobless, and he prefers ballet to biffo.
- The tale regards the ruler as a father to the orphan, husband to the widow, brother to she who is divorced, a garment to the motherless, a just ruler who comes to the voice of those who call him.
- Orders were given to bar the door against the convict gang who had come to discharge their unpleasant duty, and while all were busy decking out the unconscious corpse in gayest attire, none paid any heed to me bending over the fire with the motherless child, journeying fast to join its dead parent. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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- Many friends knew the tale of her remarkable childhood spent on the cattle stations, with her father and his motherless brood of five young children.
- Innocent was in very truth "motherless" -- but so she had always been -- for a mother who deserts her child is worse than a mother dead. Innocent : her fancy and his fact
- For example,' said Isabel, `that he should grow up motherless ? THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
- The play ignores the absence of his wife, though motherlessness is clearly among the reasons for his daughters' unruliness. The Times Literary Supplement
