What is "parentless"

Usage examples of "parentless".

George and Agnes Womble for having taken a parentless boy into their home.

Few wanted to remember the parentless children living in the compound.

In blue-gray smocks under blue-gray caps, with mouse-gray earmuffs and black woolen mufflers, they posed parentless and shivering until Amsel dismissed them with little bags of candy.

Already, in the pandemonium of an emergency landing, Christy had given another girl the name tag that identified Christy as a parentless underage traveler.

Even though she was four years married, those patterns of behaviour, established in a parentless childhood, still seemed normal to us both.

Childhood afterward had been a parentless ordeal, and only marriage to a wealthy widow from Rosea Rura country had given him a chance to rise.

I know she is, in a sense, parentless -- forsaken by her mother and disowned by you, sir -- I shall cling closer to her than before.

How many hours did I nurse that parentless child, sing him cradle-songs to comfort him to sleep?

The bullyboy sounded proud of himself, smug, and not the least troubled that whole families had died in that fire, and others been made bereft, parentless, childless, partnerless.

He wasjust twenty-three years old and had been living on his own, parentless, family-less, for the past five years.

Or those few people who were lucky enough to be parentless, or to have their parents disinherit them, so that they could get passage on a Selken ship out of the City.

Nodonn hated and feared this parentless wariangle as a Lowlife upstart and adventurer.