Example Sentences

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Distaff: Button-popping with pride was pop-eyed Eddie Cantor, sonless father of five; a daughter had popped up with bells on in show business.

From Time Magazine Archive

Keep it, widowed, sonless mothers, Keep it, sisters, mourning brothers, Furl it with an iron will; Furl it now, but—keep it still, Think not that its work is done.

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

Great Caesar, you declared, Sank sonless to his rest; was greater deemed Even for the isolation.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

Time never can efface the glint of tears In palaces, in shops, in fields, in cots, From women widowed, sonless, fatherless, That then oppressed our eyes.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

So dear father took a stroll out into the village, and being sonless adopted a young boy as the head of his house.

From The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Little, Frances, [pseud.]