Example Sentences

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When the prodigals visited, the Cobbs kept it secret from Jones.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2018

I was disappointed, naturally, in the ways that home-seeking prodigals are, dismayed to find my otherness in tact among my own.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013

A providential train wreck brings the prodigals, fortuitously unblemished, back home.

From Time Magazine Archive

With true medieval literalism, Artist Saint likes to use genuine prodigals for his Prodigal Sons, combs missions for repentant sinners when one is needed for a window.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scene is laid at Antwerp, and the two prodigals meet with retribution in Geneva and Heidelberg respectively.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various