How to Use leper in a Sentence

leper

noun

• I was just ramped with fear and hatred of those lepers.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
• The island served as a leper colony in the mid-1800s and their graves are scattered around the island.
  — Cori Murray, Essence, 1 July 2019
• In 1913, when Crete became part of Greece, all lepers in Greece were sent there.
  — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2019
• Farrokhzad’s eyes are wide open in this look at a leper colony in northern Iran.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• This led to the idea of leper colonies; as late as the 1960s, a peninsula on the Hawaiian island of Molokai still housed one such colony.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
• Many of Jesus ’ teachings revolve around the value of the outcast, the stranger, the leper and the suffering.
  — Jory Fleming, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• In this documentary short, life in a leper colony is shown to the outside world.
  — cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• The film follows the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893 and the banishment of many Native Hawaiians to a leper colony.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• St James’s Park was created in 1533, on the site of a former leper hospital.
  — B.r., The Economist, 22 Nov. 2019
• Her work from Kolkata, India, helping orphans, lepers and the poor had spread to other countries.
  — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2019
• Sheriff Louis Stolz and two policemen headed out to Kalalau to remove one rogue band of lepers.
  — Brendan Borrell, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
• His time at the leper hospital, too, doesn’t suggest an easy conscience.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• The obviously sick become like lepers, mortal threats, criminals in a way, because they have been struck with the curse the rest of us dread.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• Weissmann should be obliged to go about wearing bells like a medieval leper to warn the unsuspecting of his approach.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
• Yet mere mediocrity was nothing compared with the secret that gnawed at my innards and defined me, to myself and the world, like a leper's bell, and always would.
  — Bruce McCall, Town & Country, 22 July 2013
• The son of God walks on water; Jesus heals a leper and banishes moneylenders from the temple; Lazarus rises from the dead; camels, goats, sheep and horses stride up and down the carpeted aisles.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
• The gift of telekinesis renders Carrie a social leper and liability despite her best attempts to be good and fit in.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2022
• Think of the shaming and shunning of lepers, of the homophobic hatred that was given full voice—and even imagined moral license—during the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 13 Mar. 2020
• During my childhood in the 90s many communities treated gay men like lepers.
  — Cakes Da Killa, Billboard, 1 June 2017
• This isolated Pacific peninsula was once a leper colony, where sick native Hawaiians were left to die.
  — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
• When the audience sees climactic moments from the Gospels, such as Jesus’s miraculous healing of a leper, the events register as disruptions of the status quo.
  — Chris Deville, The Atlantic, 27 June 2021
• The few lawyers who dared represent these individuals were treated as lepers.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
• Bill is haunted by his missing brother, Georgie; Eddie is stalked by the leper, whose body is rotting and putrid; Beverly fears her aggressive father, who hovers over her.
  — Tyler Coates, Esquire, 8 Sep. 2017
• In addition to menacing clowns, phantasmatic lepers and spooky paintings come to life, the town is home to an ugly assortment of bullies (the worst one played by Nicholas Hamilton), gossips and abusive parents.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• While Louis’ piety and ministrations to the poor and lepers earned him sainthood, his reputation as a military leader is decidedly mixed.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
• Set flamboyantly in the Holy Land, a miracle worker has arrived — just as one who, centuries before, healed a desperate leper who came before him after delivery of the Sermon on the Mount.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• The group has been treated like lepers most of the season, the underperforming, unreliable, unsightly hanger-on riding the coattails of an electric offense.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• The backdrop to the story is India’s struggle for independence, and the supporting cast includes native and Western physicians, surgeons, estate owners, a leper colony, and an elephant.
  — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023
• For centuries, leper colonies and lazarettos had sequestered bodies and cargos suspected of carrying disease.
  — Timothy Kent Holliday, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024