sister
noun
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
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
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 William Carleton
In the first place, it must be understood that she was motherless, brotherless and sisterless.
From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope
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 Laura Dent Crane
Motherless, sisterless, and wifeless—strange to say, under such circumstances, he was restless too.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 by Robert Chambers
