How to use "orphanage" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "orphanage" in popular movie and book plots

  • Vincent was placed in an orphanage run by nuns in Los Angeles and believes his mother abandoned him.  - Twins (1988 film)
  • A young orphan with psychic powers named Akira Tadokoro grows up in an orphanage with his sister.  - Live A Live
  • Removed from the orphanage by his uncle Robert Lecter, Hannibal goes to live with him in France with his aunt, Lady Murasaki.  - Hannibal Rising
  • According to Archie, Kahuna rescued a group of children from an orphanage run by the evil Kane.  - Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
  • He was then placed in an orphanage until such time as she was released and could claim him.  - Antwone Fisher (film)
  • Murugan, who is ashamed of Kannamma's love affair, leaves Kannamma's newborn son in an orphanage and lies that the child was stillborn.  - Kalathur Kannamma
  • Helene Alving is about to dedicate an orphanage she has built in the memory of her dead husband, Captain Alving.  - Ghosts (play)
  • Frustrated by the inability to place Danny, his social worker decides to leave him at an orphanage run by Lindsay Brown (Lynne Moody).  - Escape to Witch Mountain (1995 film)
  • She is angered by this and forces all the girls to vigorously clean the orphanage ("Hard Knock Life").  - Annie (musical)
  • He also finds out that the orphanage where he previously worked before becoming pope had closed.  - The Pope Must Die
  • The story is about a young orphaned girl named Sophie, living in a girl's orphanage run by the cantankerous and abusive mrs Clonkers.  - The BFG
  • The violin then makes its way to an orphanage in Austria.  - The Red Violin
  • He is found and taken to the orphanage at Hellgate.  - Gangs of New York
  • At night they all have to sell chocolate for the awkward orphanage director, Stan Bittleman, after each home game of the Los Angeles Knights.  - Like Mike
  • While Tess is at her ceremony, Sam returns the child to the orphanage and walks out on Tess.  - Woman of the Year
  • Meanwhile, Terry recovers at an orphanage teaching the children how to sing.  - Love Affair (1939 film)

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