motherless

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How to use motherless in a sentence

When Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award, I felt I could exhale, after working frenetically.
How I Write: Jonathan Lethem|Noah Charney|September 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What we learn throughout the course of the film is that being the child of a felon doesn't have to mean growing up motherless.
'Mothers of Bedford': New Documentary on Mothers in Prison|Nina Strochlic|November 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Among the family at her side was her husband John, the father of her now-motherless children, who will need him to go on.
Elizabeth Edwards' Final Days|Margaret Carlson|December 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Motherless babies are far less likely than others to survive their first two years.
Christy Turlington's Labor of Love|Michelle Goldberg|June 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST

Behind these statistics are the stories of promising lives cut short and of the motherless children left behind.
The Fight for Women's Lives|The Daily Beast|September 25, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Motherless children are always taken care of, she answered trying to speak lightly.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
How shall we, how can we virtuously bring up our motherless little sister?
The Daisy Chain|Charlotte Yonge
Then Georgie took the blanched hand of the motherless girl, and entreated her.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Her daughter, the object of her most idolatrous love, is left fatherless and motherless in this cold world.
Madame Roland, Makers of History|John S. C. Abbott
He has done generous by these yer poor little lambs that he loved and sheltered, and that's left fatherless and motherless.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)