sisterless
- a word derived from sister.
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
For the first time in his life, the fatherless, motherless, brotherless, sisterless stray of the streets felt himself alone.
From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George
To be with Ethel was perpetual delight—she astonished this sisterless youngster with a thousand feminine niceties and refinements.
From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
To all present Mr. Stuart enlarged upon the duty of charity toward him, a homeless vacation visitor, starving from eating only hotel food, and toward his daughter, a sisterless girl with a longing for friends.
From The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade by Crane, Laura Dent
This innocent experiment of the heart—for such we must consider it in these two sisterless girls—was at least rewarded by complete success.
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
