Examples of orphan

• At this point, foundlings were associated with orphans.

• The poor no longer included only the traditional groups (widows, orphans, the blind, the lame) but also comprised newer kinds as well.

• The surprising fact that only 53 per cent of the orphans could be identified in the court archives has already been discussed.

• The final orphanage sample included 234 orphaned children from 124 different parental couples.

• Many orphans had already left the parental home before the death of the last biological parent (8 per cent at least).

• In 1814 the total number of orphans was 88, in 1859 approximately 80.

• On this occasion, three daughters were orphaned, so the family property was granted to a couple with two male children.

• However, with the current denotation, embryos are treated as "orphans," an analogy that leads to paradoxes.