How to Use "foundling" with Example Sentences

1. Thomas coram 's foundling hospital opened in 1741 to look after the abandoned babies of unmarried mothers , attracting support from the cream of society .

2. Foundling wheels were an artefact of medieval times ; but they reappeared in 2000 in hamburg , where a lot of abandoned babies were dying .

3. In other pictures , thomson captured the sorry inmates of a " foundling " hospital where orphaned children were offered for free to " respectable people " , and a public street slide-show where the public could see images from exotic and faraway places often to gasps of amazement .