family unit

How To Use family unit In A Sentence

• Sam instantly dislikes the man and sees him for a worthless, no-good bounder, but Ellen is blinded by her need to be part of an extended family unit.
• He warned that the breakdown of the family unit would lead to an impoverished society.
• Cooking, however, often is done within the constituent nuclear family units.
• My own experiences didn't jibe with anything these family units went through.
• LEVIN: A family annihilator is usually the husband/father (certainly one of the family members) who kills the family unit, not just his wife or one of his children, but every member of the family. ‘Better-Off Dead’
• Some extended families may live in fenced compounds or clustered housing arrangements that house multiple family units.
• Both were big and lumbering and unfeasibly tough, and it could be said that neither had an awful lot to speak of between the ears, but they were a family unit, and both cared for the other far more than they cared for themselves.
• It may be difficult to work out, but the fact is that for most people a healthy child would be perhaps the result of an unwanted pregnancy but, nonetheless, a source of joy, fulfilment and happiness within the family unit.
• If they are part of the same family unit, the antelope may belong to both of them regardless of who killed it, and Hilzoy may be considered immoral or thievish if she doesn't give Mona at least half. Libertarianism and philosophy: some old comments
• That's bad news, but there was a surge in what we call multifamily units, that's apartment buildings, and that overcame that, which gave us an increase of the 9.1 percent. CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008