brotherless
- a word derived from brother.
Example Sentences
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A renowned theater director who has embarked on a kind of permanent vacation in his 60s, he continues: “I am wifeless, childless, brotherless, sisterless, I am my well-known self, made glittering and brittle by fame.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
My extended family consists almost entirely of fatherless, brotherless and husbandless women.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011
So Erik, having half fallen, said that "bare was the back of the brotherless."
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus
For in good truth, strangers, I am not brotherless, save that I behold him not.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
Adah.I fear Nothing except to leave thee, much as I Shrink from the deed which leaves thee brotherless.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
