parentless in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for parentless in the English»Spanish Dictionary

parentless [ˈpeərəntlɪs, Am ˈperənt-] ADJ

parentless

huérfano, -a

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

How could their father leave them parentless, they wonder.

www.chicagomag.com

Since then, many more parentless children have been arriving at her gates.

www.independent.co.uk

The one where scientists schemed to create a parentless human being from scratch?

thewire.in

It is a war where children become parentless, and parents become childless.

newint.org

The reason for responding to these children is they are parentless.

ww2.kqed.org

The parentless teenage drop-out is struggling to take care of her younger brother, with little help from her older sibling.

www.cleveland.com

In the past, adoption gave "illegitimate" or parentless babies a home with parents who may not have been able to have children of their own.

theconversation.com

The trailer company will go free, of course, while the families of the dead are condemned to parentless penury!

thenationonlineng.net

How do most of the children become parentless?

www.digitaljournal.com

She came to the ruin, parentless and wearing a long, used coat.

en.wikipedia.org