How to Use leper in a Sentence

leper

noun
  • But one thing’s for sure—there were some among them who chose to become lepers.
    — Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Having the virus was like being a leper.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Farrokhzad’s eyes are wide open in this look at a leper colony in northern Iran.
    — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • In this documentary short, life in a leper colony is shown to the outside world.
    — cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
  • His time at the leper hospital, too, doesn’t suggest an easy conscience.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its history is complicated, having served as a leper colony for a hundred years.
    — Juliana Shallcross, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In 1913, when Crete became part of Greece, all lepers in Greece were sent there.
    — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Her work from Kolkata, India, helping orphans, lepers and the poor had spread to other countries.
    — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 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
  • The few lawyers who dared represent these individuals were treated as lepers.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
  • The palpable aversion to what has become the enterprise software leper colony doesn't help tech's case either.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Many of Jesus ’ teachings revolve around the value of the outcast, the stranger, the leper and the suffering.
    — Jory Fleming, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • During my childhood in the 90s many communities treated gay men like lepers.
    — Cakes Da Killa, Billboard, 1 June 2017
  • Sheriff Louis Stolz and two policemen headed out to Kalalau to remove one rogue band of lepers.
    — Brendan Borrell, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The best part of the movie is Murray Bartlett’s wise leper, a man who for the vast majority of his screen time is covered head to toe.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • The sisters run a home for children and have helped organize an impoverished settlement of lepers.
    — Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2017
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, in a remote leper village, a handsome stranger brings hope with miraculous cures until doubts grow about whether his help may come at a terrible cost.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Charlene next takes Tricia to a leper colony, run by nuns, accompanied by an army doctor and two other visitors.
    — Joan Silber, The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • St James’s Park was created in 1533, on the site of a former leper hospital.
    — B.r., The Economist, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Spinalonga Island's beauty is juxtaposed with its history as a leper colony.
    — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2025
  • For centuries, leper colonies and lazarettos had sequestered bodies and cargos suspected of carrying disease.
    — Timothy Kent Holliday, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • The song describes Ziggy as the confluence of the leper—the great biblical outcast—and the Messiah.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • An especially disturbing scene occurs when the women visit a leper colony several miles outside of Saigon and see the patients there, some with missing body parts.
    — Diane Scharper, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • 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

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