Examples of 'waif' in a sentence
Meaning of "waif"
waif (noun): a homeless and helpless person, especially a neglected or abandoned child. Waif can also refer to a stray animal or an item found without an owner
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- Often in the form waif and stray, waifs and strays: an article of movable property found of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.
- Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.
- A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
- A very thin person.
How to use "waif" in a sentence
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She was not a waif with a perfect face.
I did not realize you meant that waif.
That pretty young waif you found.
We have ruthlessly turned down many a waif.
A sweet little waif holding a stick.
Kate was soon widely known as waif look.
This waif model looks like a wet rat.
I was having my coffee when the waif appeared.
Take this screeching waif to the extermination facility.
This does not mean she is an emotional waif.
Wonder waif meets super neuter.
Time to minister to your waif and stray.
A waif usually refers to an orphan or a homeless young person.
And the waif with him.
A waif having strong resistance to radiation.
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I look like a waif next to him.
You poor little angel waif.
Just a waif with eyes.
Let him know you are no waif.
I do not want this pathetic waif becoming a hero in death.
Who shelters this poor waif.
The waif attacked first.
But we just can not waif any longer.
The ship has two stabilizers and is no waif.
This lovable little waif unselfishly returns it and is accused of being a thief.
For even the tiniest waif.
We can not take in every waif and stray in the district.
I am not some traumatized waif.
We waif for you.
Symbols and abbreviations for the fuel composition wAIF.
Hoping the waif would hear it for her he wrote this song.
I ran into that waif.
But you pin that waif model into this work of art.
You were a charming little waif.
It is equally as bad as the starved waif look of some models and celebrities.
Do not dress like a waif.
That noble waif is the only thing stopping me from gutting you like a cod.
He only looks like a waif.
The steerage waif Lily took pity upon.
She was this lost waif.
Your clever Mercy lured the waif out with the voice of her dear departed mother.
Or a tragically misunderstood dickensian waif.
On my waif.
Yet here it states that you were not some kind of waif.
She had been waiting for him looking like a waif in the overbearing armor.
I wonder if George ever thought of me as a waif.
But we know that the Waif is after her.
Judy is a young innocent waif.
The members of the High Court examined this poor waif carefully and with kindly patience.
Our victim is either a hardened criminal or a tragically misunderstood Dickensian waif.
