waifs in a sentence

1. she is foster mother to various waifs and strays

2. Only about 650,000 lived in orphanages, while the rest of these unfortunate waifs were homeless!

3. The Elder to whose care the two waifs had been committed led them to his wagon, where a meal was already awaiting them.

4. Some prefer women with a little meat on their bones, while others prefer petite waifs that weigh in at less than one hundred pounds.

5. The Hotel Chelsea is still home to writers, actors and artists, and if they can pay the bill, the waifs and strays are still welcomed as well.

6. As the British anthrozoologist John Bradshaw points out in his new book, “Dog Sense,” even now most dogs drift—not as equals or allies but as waifs.

7. It is small wonder that some commentators have seen a certain analogy between the “rescue” home for dogs and the “rescue” homes for abandoned women and children, the “waifs and strays” of the human race.