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How to use the word orphanage in a Sentence?

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Kids who wind up in an orphanage have been through enough trauma in their lives, colleen Thompson future daughter've lived through things many of us can not imagine.

Colleen Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My daughter’s been dropped here. She’s basically abandoned, there’s no caretaker from her original orphanage. There is no one who has guardianship anywhere in this whole region [ of Lviv ]. She’s in limbo.

Colleen Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I received a frantic message from one of [her] caretakers at the orphanage saying that there were bombs going off and they were fearful for their lives, it was beyond scary and you feel helpless. Trying to aid children from a continent away is challenging.

Said Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We were able to get my daughter and 43 children from her orphanage in the Donetsk region moved the day after the war started.

Said Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a result of heavy armor shelling of an orphanage in the town of Vorzel in the Kyiv region, 51 children are currently at risk of life and health, 3 of whom have severe health problems and 15 infants. Two buildings of the institution were damaged.

Lyudmila Denisova

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have memories of the orphanage and being visited by somebody who I think might have been my mother, and I remember flying over to America ; I knew something was happening, but I didn't know exactly what.

Kory Puderbaugh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This wasn't their way of life before, we have our home, our garden, we're living with our parents or sister... and now suddenly, someone is living in one city, their parents living in a nursing home, kids in a separate orphanage. What is going on here ?

Nyrola Elimä

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At least, since he [ my father ] passed, we get to be with our family, we don't have to go to an orphanage or anything. I'd rather be here than anywhere else right now.

Carlos Garcia

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In Haiti, we started a bakery in an orphanage. It produced bread that generated money to reinvest back into the orphanage.

Nate Mook

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They pay people called' child finders' who go out into the community and essentially put pressure on parents to give them their children, they will tell parents,' you are poor, you can't afford your child's education. Give them to the orphanage. We'll make sure they have an education, have healthcare, have opportunities that you could never give them.'.

Georgette Mulheir

Found on CNN
6 years ago

What bugs me about a story like this is when they use the word ‘tragedy,’ a tragedy is what happened at that church in Texas this past weekend, or an orphanage burning down. This? You know what the risks are!

Tony Massarotti

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When I came to the orphanage, there wasn't any information left behind, a lot of my birth culture was lost and forgotten.

Lani Dickinson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He said you are here because you want to use Christianity to remove government and it was like no, I don’t want to do that, I just came here to start orphanage, loving people and share the gospel with people and just that.

Saeed Abedini

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Greg Proops

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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